SIR – Regarding recent letters relating to the ‘free’ TV licence. If one is over 75, with a TV, is it an offence if one does not have a TV licence, free or otherwise?
The free licence is merely a way of acknowledging the fact that someone of 75 and over no longer has to pay to view standard terrestrial channels.
If that is the case, what is the point of having a ‘free’ licence which effectively exempts one from having to pay?
Once you reach the age of 75 you are not going to get any younger, which makes the annual updating of the ‘free’ licence a waste of time and money. It is, after all, no more than a licence to say you don’t need a licence! Bonkers.
John Ibbotson, Crownest Road, Bingley
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