MEMBERS of a campaign seeking fair pension rights for women born in the 1950s will have a stall in the centre of Helensburgh on Friday.

The WASPI Argyll and the Isles campaign is part of a national movement attempting to persuade the UK government to put in place transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s who face financial hardship as a result of changes to the state pension age.

The group's Helensburgh stall, which will be in Colquhoun Square on the afternoon of Friday, May 26, will be visited by local Labour MSP Jackie Baillie at 2pm and by Brendan O'Hara, the SNP's general election candidate, from 2.30-3.30pm as part of a UK-wide day of action by the national campaign.

Helensburgh resident and WASPI campaign member Ann Greer said: "We also hope to meet with other parliamentary candidates standing for election in Argyll and Bute and raise more awareness among 1950s-born women, affected by state pension age changes, living in the local area."

The WASPI Argyll and the Isles campaigners will head for Rothesay on Saturday - sailing there and back on board the paddle steamer Waverley - for a public meeting to be attended by the Lib Dems' Argyll and Bute candidate Alan Reid, Argyll and Bute MSP Michael Russell and local councillors.