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Radio Five Live is essential listening in our house in the mornings so when it recently came from a ...

Radio Five Live is essential listening in our house in the mornings so when it recently came from a sweet factory in Stenhousemuir I was definitely paying attention. The reason they were broadcasting from there was to talk about the Scottish elections and one of the contributors represented pensioners in the country. The gentleman came up with the frightening statistic that 26% of pensioners in Scotland live in poverty. Now, by poverty he didn't mean the level that the Government uses to judge child poverty, whereby if you don't get a holiday each year you are poor. He meant poor enough n...