TWO Scottish pensioners have launched a legal challenge against the Scottish and British governments in a bid to stop the attack on the winter fuel payment.

Peter and Florence Fanning of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, have teamed-up with the Govan Law Centre seeking a judicial review of the decision to restrict eligibility to people in receipt of pension credit.

The payment had been universal since its 1997 introduction by then Labour chancellor Gordon Brown.