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The BBC only has itself to blame for the licence fee mess

10 August 2020

10:58 PM

10 August 2020

10:58 PM

For an organisation that likes to be popular these are troubling times for the BBC. This month the Corporation started sending out letters explaining that it had ended the universal exemption from paying the licence fee for the over-75s. From now on, unless you are in receipt of pension credits (taken as evidence of poverty) you’ll have to stump up £157.50

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