Author Archives: Mark

A letter from Mrs K. Regan – TV Licences

A letter from Mrs K. Regan – TV Licences

I am aged 82 years old and have been fortunate to receive a free TV licence for the past seven years. As I am not in receipt of pension credit I will have to pay for my TV licence in 2020. At approxim ...
A letter from Leslie Holeyman – TV Licences

A letter from Leslie Holeyman – TV Licences

I read with sadness of the whingers going on about the TV licence and yet there was life before TV came along, people used to socialise and read books and listen to the radio. What about all those pas ...
Our ageing population

Our ageing population

The story of our ageing society is often told in terms of a growing population of “older people”. But what does that term even mean? That’s a question that is asked by the UK specialist think tank, Th ...
A letter from Mrs R. Greene – TV Licences

A letter from Mrs R. Greene – TV Licences

I am aged 81 and have been a widow for some 16 years. I live alone. It is I and other women especially on our own who will struggle to pay this extra cost. The TV is our window on the world as most of ...