Honor Blackman joins Equitable Life protestors

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Film and TV star Honor Blackman has waded into the battle over compensation for the one million savers who lost money in the Equitable Life fiasco.

The actress yesterday joined about 400 campaigners who took to the streets outside Parliament in a mass demonstration, according to the Guardian. Blackman also revealed half of her Equitable pension "went down the drain" as a result of the insurer's near collapse in 2001. Between them, protestors carried 15 wooden coffins to symbolise the 15 Equitable Life pensioners dying each day waiting for a resolution to the scandal. Affected policymakers gained a high court victory last month when judges over-ruled a previous Treasury decision rejecting evidence of injustice and malpract...

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