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ACROSS 7 Type of bet, on win and place (4,3) 8 Public ownership of rail would be, and Johnny-no-mates definitely isn’t (7) 10 Roughly torn (6) 11 Hills, Hundreds or railway (8) 12 Land-locked body of water (4) 13 One who oversees ballots (10) 14 Nothing much to do (2,1,5,3) 19 Sticky, suger-spun confection, possibly bought in 9 (5-5) 22 Mother’s is best (4) 23 MRSA, for example, as commonly known (8) 24 Ship’s kitchen (6) 25 Not a dark beer, but not a lager either (4,3) 26 Common herb, often used in white sauce to go with fish (7) DOWN 1 Home of Popes (7) 2 Consignment, especially sent by sea (8) 3 The Doctor’s transport (6) 4 Doctor who talked to animals (8) 5 London terminal for West Coast Mainline (6) 6 Show your ticket here (7) 9 Yorkshire resort and conference venue (11) 15 Drowning? You’ll need one of these (8) 16 Most agile, light and quick (8) 17 Without artificial input (7) 18 Inactive agent - on a long-haul train or under the rail? 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Winner and solution in next issue. set by Elk Winner of prize crossword No. 7 is S Nelson-Jones from Dunstable Last month’s solution RON DORMAN’S 2003 publication Young or Old - Defend Your Pension has been updated in light of recent events. It draws attention to incomprehensible government policies of increasing the retirement age and refusing to increase pensions in line with earnings. It also draws attention to the influence of European Union treaties on pension funding and provides the reader with a wider view of pension issues.The booklet encourages the reader to use the forthcoming referendum on the EU constitution as a means of protecting pensions. New Labour has presided over the undermining of occupational pension schemes, while claiming to do the contrary, with the abolition of Tax Credits in 1997 being the first act of destabilisation. Means- testing of state provision and refusing to restore the link with earnings while good occupational schemes are closed, means future generations will see pension provision as a futile exercise. Upon election in 1997 Tony Blair asked Frank Field to examine pensions and ‘think the unthinkable’. He was soon despatched to oblivion, presumably for doing that very thing. Unfortunately for many of the current working generation and future generations of pensioners, this government is doing the unthinkable and presiding over policies which have decimated occupational pensions and the continued diminution of the basic state pension. Occupational pension provision is overly complicated and the government claims to be seeking simplification. 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