BBC will increase TV licence fee by £1.50 from £157.50 a year to £159 from April 1

BBC will increase TV licence fee by £1.50 from £157.50 a year to £159 from April 1 TV licence fee to be increased by £1.50, from £157.50 a year to £159 from April 1 New cost, set by the Government, equates to 43p a day, the BBC confirmed  Comes as around 750,000 pensions are refusing … Read more

Pensioners pressured to pay licence fee twice amid delays and system chaos then can’t get refunds 

The great licence fee farce: Pensioners are pressured to pay twice amid delays and system chaos… then can’t get refunds Pensioners pressured into paying the £157.50 fee twice due to processing delays They have also been left out of pocket for months as refund requests are ignored Around 4.2million pensioners were claiming free licence when … Read more

Calls grow for Boris Johnson to provide fee rebates or accommodation grants to students

Boris Johnson said that the Government would ‘have to look at’ the cost of university fees and accommodation after he plunged England into a third national lockdown last night.  Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister praised students for the sacrifices they had made in staying away from university and learning online but … Read more

BBC is slammed for ‘wasting’ £26.6m of licence fee money making 310 staff redundant

BBC is slammed for ‘wasting’ £26.6m of licence fee money making 310 staff redundant – with £100,000-plus packages for SCORES of people Over the last eight months BBC spent £26.6m making 310 employees redundant  Average of £100,661 each was given to 221 staff who took voluntary redundancy 93 were handed an average of £46,773 in … Read more

Apple drops App store commission fee to 15% for some developers

Apple is set to halve its longstanding 30 percent app commission fee for small developers and businesses. The tech giant announced its new App Store Small Business Program that cuts the fee to 15 percent for those who generated less than $1 million sales in the previous calendar year. The initiative is set to launch … Read more

Apple drops App store commission fee to 15% for developers making up to $1 million in sales per year

Apple is set to halve its longstanding 30 percent app commission fee for small developers and businesses. The tech giant announced its new App Store Small Business Program that cuts the fee to 15 percent for those who generated less than $1 million sales in the previous calendar year. The initiative is set to launch … Read more

Not paying BBC licence fee is STILL a crime: Plans to decriminalise non-payment are delayed

Not paying BBC licence fee is STILL a crime: Plans to decriminalise non-payment are delayed amid fears bailiffs will target the elderly Ministers have postponed a move to decriminalise non-payment of licence fee  The alternative would be a switch to a civil rather than a criminal system There are concerns this could be worse as … Read more

Mohamed Hadid is accused of lying after claiming he has ‘no funds’ to pay $5M demolition fee

Mohamed Hadid has been accused of lying after he claimed in court documents he’s facing a whopping $60 million loss over his controversial Los Angeles mega-mansion that a judge has ordered to be torn down. The embattled real estate tycoon – father of supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid – claims to owe $15 million in … Read more

I’m A Celebrity 2020: Sir Mo Farah ‘secures huge £300k fee

I’m A Celebrity 2020: Sir Mo Farah ‘secures huge £300k fee for his first reality TV appearance as ITV splashes out £1m to sign up big names’ By Joanna Crawley and Niomi Harris For Mailonline Published: 13:24 GMT, 28 October 2020 | Updated: 13:24 GMT, 28 October 2020 Sir Mo Farah has reportedly negotiated a … Read more

PayPal customers will be slapped with a £12 ‘inactivity fee’

‘Merry Christmas from PayPal’: Irregular users of the payments platform will be charged a £12 ‘inactivity fee’ from 16 December – but it’s easy to avoid PayPal will start charging some customers an inactivity fee The US-based company said it will not be closing inactive accounts There are ways you can act now and avoid … Read more