Pensions Action Group campaigner Andrew Parr dies aged 74

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Andrew Parr, one of the founders of the Pensions Action Group (PAG) and an avid campaigner for pensions justice, has died, aged 74.

Parr instigated the group following the collapse in 2002 of his employer, Allied Steel and Wire (ASW) in Kent with another plant in the same group suffering the same fate in South Wales. Both Pa...

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