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A wide range of issues have made it to our letters pages this week.
TV licence does not provide value for money
With reluctance I have recently paid my TV licence.
I say reluctantly because even at 43p per day it is not value for money.
There are numerous media platforms that I do pay for, but the difference is I have a choice.
I do use the BBC for the six o’clock news and of course the main topic is at present the Israeli-Gaza conflict. My intention not to pay – we are in our 80s – was over-ridden by my wife who did not relish travelling to see me in the local jail. Besides, she said, the beds will be too hard. I pointed out that the average prisoner is better treated than us old age pensioners.
But back to the BBC. Last week I was hopping up and down and asking my wife why there were two highly paid studio reporters, Clive Myrie and Reeta Chakrabarti, fronting the six o’clock news…