Women from St Albans will be protesting outside parliament today about pension inequality.

MPs and celebrities will be joining the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) demonstration, which coincides with the Suffragettes marching on Parliament on June 29, 1909.

Joined by a choir of 200, thousands of women will protest the lack of information given to them about their pensions.

Shona Topping, a member of WASPI, said: “We’re really looking forward to the day. Of course it will be fun and everyone will have a great time, but really we are there to get our message across.

“And our message is clear. We are here. We are not going to go away. The government needs to do something about our situation.

“Women were not told anything about the changes being made to their pensions, and subsequently, lots of women will lose thousands of pounds they believed they would receive in state pension.”

In 1995 the government decided that from 2020 the age at which a woman would receive a state pension would move in line with men to 65.

However, in 2011, the coalition decided the new pension age of 65 would be brought in two years earlier in 2018 and for both sexes it would rise to 66 in 2020.

Mrs Topping, of Park Street Lane, said very few women knew about these changes, so believed they would be receiving their state pension at 60, only to be told they would actually have to wait a further six years.

The 61-year-old said: “This event isn’t about objecting to the increase in the women’s state pension age, it’s about highlighting the unfairness that women born in the 1950s, on or after the 6th April 1951, now face.

“What we’re angry about is the little notice that we were given and the lack of information we have received from the government.”