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Dundee pensioners campaign for better education, healthcare improvements and an end to drug deaths

Dundee pensioners campaign for better education, healthcare improvements and an end to drug deaths © Mhairi Edwards Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A Dundee campaign group is calling for protection of their pensions, the extension of bus passes for use on trains and ferries, the city’s drugs problems to be tackled and investment in education. Dundee Pensioners Forum has prepared a manifesto making the pleas ahead of a virtual hustings to be held on Tuesday. The hustings will hear from candidates standing in the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections.

Dundee OAP to receive formal apology after receiving threatening TV licence letter

Updated: April 7, 2021, 3:59 pm © PA An 84-year-old pensioner will receive a formal apology after he was sent a “threatening and intimidating” letter demanding he pay his TV licence fee. The letter, which was signed by an “enforcement manager”  from the TV Licensing Authority in Dundee, claimed an officer would be sent to the man’s house, in the Dales area of the city, to check if he was watching TV illegally. It was delivered despite the fact the pensioner, who did not wish to be named, had already registered he no longer needed a license. “You have left us with no alternative but to proceed with the final stages of our investigation,” the letter read.

How lockdown has changed the face of fitness for young and old

How lockdown has changed the face of fitness for young and old Updated: April 1, 2021, 10:01 am © Steve Brown / DCT Media Karate and fitness instructor Sarah Queen has broadcast hundreds of classes from her home during the enforced lockdown. Many things have changed during the coronavirus pandemic and how fitness instructors have had to adapt to these unprecedented times is among them. The complete shutdown of schools, leisure centres, gyms and public halls across Tayside and Fife has proven the catalyst for a rise in online fitness classes being streamed into living rooms. Who could forget the Joe Wicks phenomenon which saw millions tune in to the TV presenter and fitness coach’s daily workout routines designed for both kids and adults?

Dundee Pensioners Forum wants no investment in harmful fossil fuels

© DCT Media Gordon Samson Dundee OAPs are calling for public money to stop being used to fund investment in “harmful” fossil fuels. Dundee Pensioners Forum has written to the city council asking that they reconsider investing Tayside Pension Fund cash in companies working in the extraction of coal, crude oil and natural gas. Instead, they have asked that the council adopts a more ethical and sustainable approach to the investment fund for the policy, which serves public sector workers across the region. It also covers non-uniform police and fire staff, as well as Perth College UHI employees. ‘Future of pensioners at risk’

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