Taking the Fight to TV Licensing
The below contribution has been sent to us by a reader called James, who questions what right an organisation as corrupt as the BBC has to bully licence fee payment from non-consumers of its service.I...
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Watch Out: TV Licensing Goon Beale Is About
Regular readers will know all about Northern Irish TV Licensing goon Paul Beale.He's one of the most infamous Capita TV Licensing employees out there, having featured in no less than three previous...
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Capita TV Licensing In Goon Recruitment Drive
Have you ever wanted a job where you can threaten people in their own homes, bully money from the vulnerable and infirm and pretend you have more powers than you actually do?Unfortunately ISIS isn't...
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BBC Bosses Down, Expenses Up
The BBC claims to have reduced the number of senior managers by 5.7% in the last year.This reduction has led to salary savings of 5.4%, according to a statement published on the BBC website a few days...
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Scottish TV Licensing Goon Enjoying Her Work
Over the years we have encountered some very strange behaviour by TV Licensing goons.We have seen them hopping on one leg, pretending to make phone calls, spying through windows and generally scurrying...
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Cancelling Your TV Licence
Now that the dust has settled on the Scottish Independence Referendum result, we thought we'd take the opportunity to give some advice about how to cancel a TV licence.Reading around it appears that...
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BBC Presenter Dave Lee Travis Convicted of Indecent Assault
BBC radio and television presenter Dave Lee Travis has been convicted of indecently assaulting a researcher during the filming of a 1995 comedy show.The 69-year-old pervert, real name David Griffin,...
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BBC Staff Angered by Director General's Asian Jolly
BBC staff are said to be angered at the revelation that two top executives spent more than £10k of public money on a jolly to Asia.The Director General, Tony Hall, and Director of News and Current...
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TV Licensing Threatens Spot Checks
Residents of West Yorkshire are being warned to make sure they are correctly licensed before settling down to enjoy live TV programmes.An article in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus states that TV...
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Caution: TVLicence.co.uk
A new website has appeared that claims to show people how to save the cost of the annual TV licence fee.The site, tvlicence.co.uk, which we won't be linking to, states the following: "This is (sic)...
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Pub Boss Threatens to Call Time After TV Licensing Prosecution
The owner of a Bury pub has threatened to call time after being prosecuted for TV licence evasion, despite his claim that no TV equipment is used on the premises.Colin Yates, who runs CY Inns Limited,...
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Reader Letter: TV Licensing Questioning the Neighbours
In today's post we respond to an email received from one of our readers.Our reader writes:Dear TV Licensing Blog,I live in a suburban semi and I don't get on very well with my next door neighbour. For...
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The Work of the Magistrates' Court: Quantity Over Quality?
Today the TV Licensing Blog explores the role and effectiveness of the Magistrates' Court, not just in relation to its disposal of TV licence cases, but also more generally.All criminal cases start...
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Welsh TV Licensing Goon Leaves Empty-Handed
An unfamiliar TV Licensing goon was captured on video as he visited a legally-licence-free South Wales property the other day.It appears that the female occupant asked the goon, named as Jonathan Price...
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Overpaid BBC Star Clarkson Chased from Argentina
Marmitesque TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson is embroiled in further controversy this weekend, after revelations that the Top Gear production team was attacked by an angry crowd of Argentinians.Clarkson,...
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Police Told Savile's Dirty Secret a Decade Earlier
Surrey Police was told that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile almost a decade before he was finally exposed, according to a report in today's Mail on Sunday.The force has admitted that a journalist...
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Author Pens Reverse Threatogram to TV Licensing
Bestselling author Rosen Trevithick is way too busy writing books to waste her time watching TV programmes.Like thousands of other people across the land, Rosen informed TV Licensing of her TV-free...
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TV Licence Fee
Have you ever wondered how the BBC spends the cash it receives from every TV licence fee payer?Legally speaking, a TV licence is required for every property where equipment is installed or used to...
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BBC Radio 4 Programme Discusses Dishonest TV Licensing Letter
BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme featured an item about one of TV Licensing's most dishonest threatograms.The 7 minute segment was first broadcast on 28th February 2013, but for some inexplicable...
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TV Licensing Ask Help Script
The latest copy of TV Licensing's Ask Help Script has been released under the Freedom of Information Act.WhatDoTheyKnow.com requestor Nath asked the BBC to provide the most recent version of the...
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