BBC suggests adding TV licence fee to people’s BROADBAND bills as it says decriminalising non-payment will cost it £1billion in five years Broadcaster told ministers viewers would suffer if the income stream was taken If licence was decriminalised, two alternative civil systems have been suggested One is a civil penalty model, the other a civil … Read more
BBC Director-General Lord Hall has not ruled out a further delay to the end of the free licence fee for over-75s. The universal benefit was due to end on June 1 but was pushed back until August 1 as a result of coronavirus. Asked whether it could be delayed further if the crisis is not … Read more
Halifax has told holders of its Reward current account they will have to opt into potentially paying a £3 monthly fee for it, under changes coming in at the start of June. Customers will have to pay in £1,500 a month or be billed £3, while the bank is also revamping the account’s cashback offer. … Read more
Former BBC director-general Greg Dyke calls the licence fee ‘dumb’ and suggests it has no place in modern television Mr Dyke, 72, led broadcaster from 2000 until 2004 and said fee is out of date He said the idea of a ‘compulsory tax on the TV set sitting in the corner’ is ‘dumb’ The licence … Read more
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes accuses the BBC of putting the TV license fee at risk with its ‘ridiculous’ bias that alienates viewers Julian Fellows says that the BBC displays ‘ridiculous’ bias that alienates viewers Downton Abbey creator stopped short of calling for licence fee to be scrapped The dramatist and Tory peer said that Channel 4 … Read more
BBC boss Lord Hall says the corporation has dumped its ‘we know best’ approach as the new Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has told the broadcaster to ditch its ‘narrow urban outlook’. The end of the licence fee has been mooted by the Government, with a threat to turn the BBC into a subscription service. It … Read more
Credit card customers of high street bank Halifax have reportedly been hit by charges when trying to make Klarna repayments, the buy now, pay later firm said. In a statement on its website published last week following an exclusive story from This is Money which revealed a Tesco Bank credit card customer had been charged … Read more