No. The statutory retirement age was abolished from English law in 2011 and therefore you cannot force someone retire when they reach a certain age. Employees can keep working after they reach state pension age. 

If an employee leaves without giving notice they are, strictly speaking, in breach of contract.  You could therefore sue the employee for any loss arising from this breach. In reality this would be time consuming, costly and it may not be easy to qualify your losses.

The best way to try to avoid this is to have contractual clauses that discourage this. For example, you can state that any holiday entitlement in excess of statutory will not be paid (you must pay statutory holiday). If you pay any bonuses or commission you could confirm that entitlement is subject to them complying with any notice period requirements if they leave.

You should also have a clause in your contract confirming that an employee will not be paid for any period of notice not worked. 

The notice period will be in accordance with the employee's contract or alternatively the statutory notice of one week for each completed year's service up to a maximum of 12 weeks (whichever is the greater). Please see the notice page for further guidance.