Only older people who receive a benefit called a Pension Credit will receive a free TV licence. Here’e how to claim.
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Over 75 TV Licence Row & the Future of TV
I’ve concluded that market forces will end the TV Licence system. Personally I think the BBC will have faded away by the end of the decade.Alan Tucker Free TV licences for over 75s 20 years
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Wapping Bus Gate, Blocked off neighbourhoods VS International Trade, What the Geezers think
Wapping Bus Gate Last Sunday I cycled across to the Wapping Bus Gate to see what it looked like. Since I was expecting to find a new area of red paint on the road I
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Liveable Streets – For the Few …. Not the Many
Only 4% of people in Tower Hamlets travel by bicycle on 5 or more days a week. Most of them are well off young white men under 35. (Source page 8 Bike Life document. Beware of
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Liveable Streets – Council listens to cycling Lobby not Residents
Bow East resident, Sheila Kelly reports What a Mess! Two weeks into the Tower Hamlets consultation on Liveable Streets and what a mess it is. Over 1,000 residents have formed a facebook group against the
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Over 75s TV Licences & NHS Staff Parking
Free TV licences for the over 75s will end 1st August Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s Charity Director said: “For millions of over 75s who’ve had a torrid time over the last few months, this must
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Liveable Streets – forget pollution control, it’s all about the money
Bow resident, Sheila Kelly, has spent the weekend researching bus gates. Here’s what she found. A bus gate in Glasgow resulted in over 6,000 fines in its first three weeks of operation.
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Liveable Streets
Four road changes combine to turn Bow East into a dead end
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