With fewer than 130 days to go until free TV licences for the over-75s are due to be scrapped, if current plans are allowed to go ahead, the charity Age UK is warning that the cost of funding their ow ...									
								
								
									
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										The BBC is again coming under fire in connection with the highly divisive issue of the TV licence, as the UK government announces that it is looking at the possibility of decriminalising the non-payme ...									
								
								
									
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										Roger Philpott considers the BBC to be “one of our few remaining success stories”. Is he, I wonder, happy with the Britain he sees around him today? Personally, I think our country is in a grossly deg ...									
								
								
									
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										It seems like the furore over free TV licences for the over 75s simply will not go away. You just need to read our “Letters Pages” to see that this is a topic over which many pensioners are still fumi ...									
								
								
									
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