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Published Date: 14 May 2008
With reference to the activities of TV Licensing (Letters, 8 and 13 May), over the past eight years my son has had a steady stream of communications accusing him of not having a valid licence. Initially, he wrote back, politely explaining he had no TV and did not intend to obtain one.
However, this did not stop the flow of letters, which ultimately threatened that he would be visited by an investigator, could be interviewed under caution and might receive a severe fine. He tried phoning or returning the letters, by now covered in large red warnings, but to no avail. When one phones the 0844 number provided, all one gets is a menu of options, none of which is applicable. For the benefit of anyone similarly afflicted, we have obtained a freephone number: it is 0800 328 2020.

BARRY HUGHES

Comiston Drive

Edinburgh






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  • Last Updated: 13 May 2008 8:11 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Curious Yellow,

Edinburgh 14/05/2008 09:38:53
Alertnatively, write back and politely advise them that you have no TV. Then when they eventually try to prosecute, you have every chance of having them kicked out of court.
2

Shrink,

Dundee 14/05/2008 10:09:38
We have never owned a TV & have similarly had a barrage of increasingly threatening letters each time we have moved house that eventually stop after we have repeatedly replied to say that we have no TV & do not plan to get one. The most bizarre thing though is that the one time that an inspector did actually turn up they never even came into the flat but simply accepted my explanation on the doorstep that we didn't own a TV, turned round & went away!

 

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