Two of Northern Ireland's finance minister Sammy Wilson’s most senior officials yesterday claimed in public that they are being subjected to age discrimination by his department.
Patronising elderly people in hospitals or care homes should be treated as severely as racist or sexist abuse, a landmark report on dignity for older people says today.
A ban on age discrimination in goods and services has been shelved by ministers, leaving millions of elderly at risk of inferior hospital treatment and rip off insurance.
The BBC should have been free to drop Miriam O'Reilly from Countryfile without attracting any accusations of age discrimination, according to comedian Rowan Atkinson.
He said that the landmark age discrimination claim brought by Miriam O'Reilly, 54, had been a wake up call for the BBC.
Town halls are guilty of ‘age discrimination’ because they are under-funding vital services for the elderly by at least £500million a year, a report says today.
Roughly one in five Germans believes they have been discriminated against because of their age – with the nation's youths feeling harder done by than its pensioners.
He told Dennis Skinner people should not visit the Natural History Museum to see the ancient beasts, but "come to the House of Commons" instead.
Former Countryfile presenter to leave corporation a year after successfully bringing a claim of age discrimination.
Scotland's older people have hit out at the age discrimination they face while trying to buy goods and services.
People in UK much less worried about ageing than rest of continent and many more people agree pension age will need to increase.
Pensions Minister Steve Webb said that ‘the idea that we are old at 59 belongs in the era of Downton Abbey – not in 2012,’
A 23-year-old died of cervical cancer because doctors said she was too young for a smear test, her devastated family have claimed.
Actor Kenneth Cope is planning legal action over claims he was the victim of age discrimination by a town centre traffic warden.
New tenants who are aged over 25 would be offered a five year tenancy, but those under will be offered just two.
Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips has said she is 'overwhelmed' after fans called for her to return to the hit BBC show.
Members of the university’s Council and General Board said they were concerned that if they did not continue with the rules, lecturers would not retire soon enough, preventing younger blood from entering the profession.
Two decades since Ottawa’s first attempt to kill mandatory retirement, the Tories in Canada have finally done it.
Elderly cancer sufferers die in greater numbers than younger patients because of NHS ageism, official figures suggest.
The force has used a police service regulation, known as A19, to compel officers to retire when they have spent 30 years in the job, but officers claim that this is ageism and age discrimination.