4Fitter
Point taken. Glad I haven't got your job.
Apologies to all for one slip up. The effective "service from" date for raising of the preserved pension age is 6 Apr 06, not 6 Apr 05 as I stated. Nobody's perfect ...................
Ginseng
PS: The briefing note is, as I said, dated 7 Apr 05. As far as I could tell it only appeared on the Defence intranet in the last 36 hours or so, and I have not seen a paper copy. Says it all ............