Dear LPG, 

When you think of what the world has been through over the past couple of years it is mind-blowing.  So many have been truly devastated by a pandemic that continues to bring so many challenges with it.    After the best part of two years of should we do this or should we do that, many of us take the government’s advice with guarded belief if we can keep up with what is going on but, even in our enforced self-isolation over the past couple of years, if we had nothing else to keep us company most of us had the box in the corner of the living room, the television.

We older readers all got quite upset when the free licence came to an end for the over 75-year-olds last year. I find it especially upsetting because all the revenue from that goes to the BBC and I watch their channels so rarely that I do think it unfair that I am being charged so that their programmes can be made. 

But did you know that if you honestly, do not watch live TV you should not have to pay?  

There is quite a bit of online information surrounding why we think we all need to pay for a television licence, although I have a lot to learn about legal ways of watching the box without one. 

I found a couple of bits of online information on the subject which might be of interest to some readers, depending on their television watching preferences and if they are, or know someone who can fully understand all the details.  What I found might take a bit of setting up and sorting out, but it might be worth considering for some more savvy readers. 

HH, New Cross

HH has found some online facts that may be of interest…

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