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Campaigns & Issues
Age UK Enterprises and E.ON offer a little extra help with winter fuel bills
Age UK gas customers get over £5.6m in Cold Weather Payments
Age UK Enterprises, the commercial services arm of Charity Age UK, and E.ON have today announced a Cold Weather Payment payout totalling more than £5.6 million which will be awarded to gas customers on E.ON’s Age UK Energy tariffs.
News
All-Party Parliamentary Pharmacy Group's inquiry into medicine shortages
Ahead of the launch today, of the All-Party Parliamentary Pharmacy Group’s inquiry into medicine shortages, Rob Darracott, Chief Executive of Pharmacy Voice said:
“Pharmacists up and down the country are making extraordinary efforts to get medicines to their patients promptly, and in most cases succeeding. But there is a longstanding problem with medicines delays which must not be allowed to continue indefinitely.
Competitions & Fun
Win tickets to the Chalke Valley History Festival – the only literary festival devoted entirely to history!
The Chalke Valley History Festival, a series of top-class literary events devoted entirely to history, takes place from 26 June to 1 July. Such was the success of the 2011 inaugural Festival, this year’s programme is going to be five times the size, with over 50 events being held in two tents, across four evenings and an entire weekend. Staged at the brand-new 22 acre site just outside Ebbesbourne Wake, near Salisbury, this year’s line-up will include not only the very best historians in the country, but also a host of exciting events, competitions and promotional activities for both adults and children.
Reader Offers
You could win one of three superb weekend breaks in Silver Travel Advisor’s “Best of British” Diamond Jubilee celebration this month
Silver Travel Advisor is a friendly website packed with advice, tips, information and honest reviews written by and for silver travellers (aged over 50).
A team of advisors are on hand to answer queries (for free), and you can share your own experiences too.
It’s time to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee this month with an amazing British prize draw:
Win a two night stay for two people at Flackley Ash Hotel , Rye, East Sussex
Health & Wellbeing
20% “fat tax” needed to improve population health
Taxes on unhealthy food and drinks would need to be at least 20% to have a significant effect on diet-related conditions such as obesity and heart disease, say experts on bmj.com today. Ideally, this should be combined with subsidies on healthy foods such as fruit and vegetables, they add.
Their views come ahead of the 65th World Health Assembly taking place in Geneva on 21-26 May 2012 where prevention and control of non-communicable diseases will be a key issue for discussion.
Property & Finance
Retirement should be a process, not an event, argues ILC-UK
Older people should expect to work longer and draw upon property wealth to help fund care costs, argues a new think-piece by the International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK)
The think-piece is published alongside polling evidence which found that:
Lifestyle
Just a scrap cube of metal to be recycled.....
I wondered if you and my fellow readers of the Mature Times might be interested in my time warp car that almost ended up as a scrap cube of metal to be recycled.....
Travel & Leisure
New Partnership Extends Travel Reviews For Mature Travellers
Just over a year after launching the UK’s only travel review and travel advice website for the over 50s, Silver Travel Advisor is entering into a new venture with Age UK, the Charity and social enterprise dedicated to improving the lives of older people.
This exciting collaboration will see Silver Travel Advisor contribute to the ‘Travel and Lifestyle’ section of the Age UK website, which attracts 5.5 million visitors each year.
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