Trustee calls off search for 4,500 missing members of Fishermen's scheme

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The Fishermen's Pension Scheme is to be wound up this year - despite having holes in its data records which have left more than a third of its members untraced.

The trust-based pension scheme ran for nearly 20 years from the early 1960s but had been run chaotically - with many details inaccurately recorded, addresses rarely updated and no national insuranc...

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