Certain Brits will be pleased to hear they are having their BBC TV Licences cut by 50 per cent.

It comes as the cost of the licence fee went up by £5 on 1 April.

Samir Shah, who took over as BBC chairman in March last year, told the Sunday Times he would be in favour of a more progressive way of paying for the corporation, saying: “Why should people who are poor pay the same as people in wealthy households?”

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