And the TV Licence company, subcontracted by the BBC, has warned it has a fleet of ‘detector vans’ ready to issue £1,000 fines to any household caught watching the Olympics without a TV ...

‘The van was only a gimmick’: secrets of the TV licence inspectors. From ostentatious vehicles to Hitchcock-style horror adverts, attempts to catch ‘TV spongers’ have moved with the times.

Many people will remember the TV adverts warning of a fleet of TV detector vans hunting the city streets looking for licence dodgers. One sinister 1985 advert depicted stereotypical rows of ...

Does the TV Licence van really exist? When you decide that you don't need a TV Licence, you can't just not buy one and call it a day. You have to declare to TV Licensing that you are exempt ...