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Thank you dominic. more than 100,000 people, many of them women, have been underpaid a total of a billion pounds in state pensions. that's the finding of a report by the national audit office, which blames years of repeated mistakes and outdated computer systems at the department for work and pensions. sarah corker reports. for nearly a decade, irene from worcestershire was underpaid her state pension. she is one of thousands of women in their 70s and 80s who missed out on large sums of money because of government errors. i think it's scandalous. i think that the fact that you have to battle f...

But the us president has played down the prospect of brokering a free trade deal with the uk, and issued a fresh warning over northern ireland trade. a catalogue of errors that led to thousands of people, mostly women, being underpaid by a billion pounds in state pensions. a man's been charged with the murders of three children and a woman in derbyshire. they were found dead at a house in killamarsh on sunday. the government is set to pay the operating costs to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the uk amid fears over food supplies. a powerful earthquake strikes south—eas...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines: white house talks between borisjohnson and joe biden — but the us president has played down the prospect of brokering a free trade deal with the uk, and issued a fresh warning over northern ireland trade. the deal with the uk, that's continued to be discussed. but the protocols, ifeel very strongly about those. a catalogue of errors that led to thousands of people, mostly women, being underpaid by a billion pounds in state pensions. if you're one of the people who's been affected by these errors, we'd like to hear your experience this morning. you ...

To battle for something that's rightfully yours is awful, because i was lucky, i have got richard to help me. but anybody who is a widow, perhaps not financially up with it, and they're perhaps struggling on the breadline, it could make a tremendous difference. irene has now been paid the £7,000 she was owed, but it was a battle and she's far from alone. these errors relate to married women who had small state pensions. they were eligible to claim 60% of their husbands contributions. but complex rules and errors by the dwp meant that for decades, they were underpaid. the errors date back to 1...

Rain on friday for western parts of scotland. temperatures elsewhere into the low 20s. goodbye for now. this is bbc news ? these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. white house talks between borisjohnson and joe biden — but the us president has played down the prospect of brokering a free trade deal with the uk, and issued a fresh warning over northern ireland trade. the deal with the uk, that's continued to be discussed. but the protocols, ifeel very strongly about those. and at the un president biden promises a new era in his first address to the general assembly — p...