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'Rising prices are forcing pensioners into fuel poverty'

One-in-four retired people live below the poverty line of £151 a week, the same number as when Labour first came to power in 1997, according to the National Pensioners Convention, which yesterday urged the government to take action.

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TORCUIL CRICHTON, Chief UK political correspondent

One-in-four retired people live below the poverty line of £151 a week, the same number as when Labour first came to power in 1997, according to the National Pensioners Convention, which yesterday urged the government to take action.