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Ten million pensioners in for 10pc pension hit after court ruling Millions of pensioners will see as much as 20 per cent wiped off their retirement income after a court ruling delivered a bitter blow to gold-plated company schemes.Pension scheme trustees on September 1 lost a High Court battle to protect millions of their members from a change to inflation calculations that will leave them worse off in retirement.The legal challenge centres around the Government’s move to scrap the Retail Price Index (RPI) and increase salary-linked pensions every year in line with a less generous measure of inflation instead.
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Bishop widely condemned over rape and abortion commentsAn Orthodox bishop has been universally condemned for saying that women who are raped “want it.”In an interview with private broadcaster SKAI TV, Chrysostomos, metropolitan bishop of Dodoni, said that “a woman doesn’t just allow herself to get raped without wanting it.”The cleric said that he was opposed to abortion, even in situations of rape.He claimed that woman cannot get pregnant as the result of a rape.
What made the Spartans such fierce warriors?Sparta is a warrior society in ancient Greece known for its harsh military training. Classicist Dr. Michael Scott travels across Greece to experience Spartan food and clothes to discover the best warriors' secrets to fitness.
Met officer behind anti-drugs strategy ‘smoked cannabis every day’Commander Julian Bennett is said to have been using drugs at the same time as Cressida Dick was praising him for his performanceCommander Julian Bennett, who has served in the force since 1976, is also accused of using LSD and magic mushrooms.The officer was nicknamed "sacker" for taking a tough approach to rogue colleagues when he presided over disciplinary hearings, but could now be booted out of the force himself.