Councillor hits out as state pension rises above life expectancy age for men in area of Wishaw

Joe Jonas channelled his inner Marvel superhero over the Halloween weekend and we are loving it! The Jonas Brothers singer, who recently turned a father, was spotted on a stroll with his daughter Willa. Although the singer opted for a casual ensemble, he did not do away with the Halloween spirit completely.

Dua Lipa is taking The Sun to task for their allegations.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe UK’s £500M Film and TV Production Restart Scheme officially opens from today following state aid approval being granted by the EU.The DCMS has extended the deadline for registration and start of production to February 2021 and said today that “eligible productions will be onboarded within days”.

BTS fans are calling for the K-Pop group to be exempt from mandatory military service in South Korea.All able-bodied males aged between 18 and 28 are legally required to serve in the military for around two years as part of the country’s defence policy against North Korea.The eldest BTS member, Jin, turned 27 last December and must therefore sign up for military service by the end of 2021.

significant State Pension rights, a former pensions minister has claimed. Sir Steve Webb, a partner at pensions consultants Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP), said in the late 1990s and early 2000s there were around 4,000 divorces involving women aged over 60 each year in the UK with the annual numbers increasing ever since.

From today the state pension age in the UK has risen for both men and women.As of October 6, Brits will need to be 66 to be eligible to claim for the benefits.The new changes mean that anyone born after 5 October 1954 will have a state pension age of at least 66 - for some women that is six years after the date they were originally told they could claim.It's the first rise to affect men as well as women as the Government looks to cut costs as people live longer lives.Further rises to 67 and 68

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Aus/NZ rights out of the Toronto virtual market to Maisie Williams (Game Of Thrones) horror The Owners and Aus/NZ rights to Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch) thriller Lost Girls & Love Hotels.The deals were negotiated by the company’s Director of Acquisitions and Development Elizabeth Williams.Directed by French filmmaker Julius Berg (Netflix’s The Forest and Osmosis), home invasion chiller The Owners is is

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won't be celebrating Christmas with the rest of the royal family this year, apparently. A source close to the couple told Vanity Fair that the Sussexes don't have any plans to fly back to the United Kingdom for the holidays this year, in spite of earlier reports suggesting they hoped to do just that.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have denied that they are about to enter the world of reality TV. It was reported early Monday that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were planning a show under their new Netflix deal.

Lily Collins has lots of reasons to celebrate right now. Not only has the British actor become engaged to boyfriend Charlie McDowell (the writer-director proposed while the pair were holidaying in New Mexico), but her hotly-anticipated new TV series launches on October 2.

Lily Collins has lots of reasons to celebrate right now. Not only has the British actor become engaged to boyfriend Charlie McDowell (the writer-director proposed while the pair were holidaying in New Mexico), but her hotly-anticipated new TV series launches on October 2.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBBC Studios has closed a raft of global deals for Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated anthology drama Small Axe, which will premiere on BBC One in the UK and Amazon in the U.S.Australia’s Foxtel, France’s Salto, Spain’s Movistar+, Russia’s KinoPoisk, and Greece’s Cosmote TV are among the territories to have picked up the show.