Chorley pensioner warned he faces TV licensing investigation - despite not owning a television

However, the 77-year-old says he is being threatened with legal action despite repeatedly telling the authority he binned his set in 2018. The retired engineer says he prefers reading to watching to telly but that has not stopped the TV Licensing Authority from sending letters warning him he faces prosecution for not paying the £159 annual fee.

He says he receives a letter every year marked for the occupier of the house and, that while most of them are ‘mild’, the last couple he has received have been more menacing. The last letter he received a week ago states that his address has been scheduled for a visit by an enforcement officer.