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  • Meet the pensioner who hasn't had a TV since 1978 - why are the licence police are STILL after her?

    01/19/2009 1:21:51 AM PST · by Stoat · 83 replies · 2,891+ views
    The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | January 19, 2009 | Claire Ellicott
    The television licence enforcers were nothing if not persistent. For five years they pursued 69-year-old Hannah Patricia Humphris with a succession of intimidating missives demanding she buy a licence.   The pursuit culminated with a letter this month threatening her with prosecution and a possible £1,000 fine.  But the TV licensing police had overlooked one crucial fact: Miss Humphris hasn't owned a television since 1978.    Hannah Patricia Humphris doesn't own a television, but is still being pursued by the TV Licencing AuthorityShe got rid of her set that year because it wasn't working properly and, she said, there...