LOVE it or loathe it the TV Licence is a fact of life for most people who own a set in the UK.

The annual fee for a licence is £147 which is used to fund the BBC.

The latest figures from the BBC show the corporation received an annual income in 2017 of £3,787m from licence fee payers.

Most of the cash is spent on making TV programmes, each month the BBC spends £12.13 of licence fee income per UK household - out of that £6.92 goes on TV.

Failure to pay for a TV Licence can land people in front of a magistrate but how much do you know about the licence, who must pay and what could happen if you don’t?

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