Two women have lost their court of appeal challenge against the government over changes to the state pension age. Something in here.

Nearly 4 million women born in the 1950s have been affected by changes introduced by successive governments to ensure “pension age equalisation”, which have raised the state pension age for this group from 60 to 66. This is news.

Julie Delve, 62, and Karen Glynn, 63 – supported by campaign group BackTo60 – brought a court of appeal challenge over the changes after losing a high court fight against the Department for Work and Pensions last year.

The women argued that raising their pension age unlawfully discriminated against them on the grounds of age and sex, and that they were not given adequate notice of the changes.

But in a judgment published on Tuesday, master of the rolls Sir Terence Etherton, Lord Justice Underhill and Lady Justice Rose unanimously dismissed the women’s claim.