A furious caller to Jeremy Vine on 5 has taken a swipe at Gary Lineker in a debate about whether richer people should pay more for a TV licence. Sarah from Surrey told the show she would scrap the fee, which she
Tory deputy chairman Jonathan Gullis has blasted the BBC licence fee as a “disgrace and abomination”. The MP said it is time for the public broadcaster to end the charge after the corporation’s boss mooted the possibility of means tested licence fee
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg branded proposals for wealthier Britons to pay a higher BBC licence fee as “monstrous”. BBC director-general Tim Davie floated the idea of a more progressive model as part of reforms. But speaking on his GB News show, the Tory
A secret court has been fining pensioners for TV licence crimes behind closed doors it has been revealed. But now the Magistrates’ Association has ordered that prosecutions of TV licence-related offences must be held in public, with the “secretive” Single Justice Procedure
Criminal sanctions for people who fail to pay the television licence fee are “increasingly disproportionate and unfair,” according to Culture Minister Julia Lopez. Ms Lopez says she is “concerned about the impact that a licence fee enforced by criminal sanctions can have
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem allegedly tried to withdraw the licence for last year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix just days before the event was set to take place. The claim comes from the same whistleblower that said Ben Sulayem told officials to
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem allegedly tried to withdraw the licence for last year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix just days before the event was set to take place. It comes from the same whistleblower who claims Ben Sulayem told officials to overturn
Pensioners feel pressured to pay the TV licence fee after receiving “nasty letters” from “scaremongering” officers, new claims suggest. The annual fee to watch live TV is set to go up from £159 to £169.50 in April, with some over 75 and
The BBC licence fee was blasted as “ludicrous” and a “tax just to watch Strictly Come Dancing” after it emerged the Government had approved a plan to cut the planned annual rise by a third. Tim Davie, the director general of the
Calls for the BBC TV licence to be scrapped have been re-fuelled after a shocking new case where a severely disabled woman was prosecuted for not having paid it despite her being partially blind. The case has raised serious questions about the