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Page last updated at 02:25 GMT, Saturday, 8 August 2009 03:25 UK

State pension age 'may hit 70'

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The state pension retirement age could be heading for 70, according to the chairman of the UK's pensions regulator.

David Norgrove told the BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston - in this week's Leading Questions on BBC News - that rising life expectancy means millions of people in the UK will have to wait much longer in the future to draw a state pension.

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