WATCHING your favourite soap or that crucial football match could cost you a trip to court and up to a pounds 1,000 fine - if you're doing it without a television licence.
I AM appalled to read that the BBC has squandered pounds 60,000 of television licence payer's money on Tracey Emin statue of a sparrow atop a scaffolding pole.
A NEWSPAPER columnist who refused to pay for a television licence, claiming the fee was a ``poll tax on televisions'' and that it interfered with his human rights, has lost his case and was fined pounds 150.
Hotels and business should have to buy a television licence for every set they own so that pensioners, the disabled and the poor could be exempt from the charge, a Midland Labour MP said.
Included in university acceptance letters were leaflets warning students what they could expect if they turned up at college without a television licence.