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Strictly star Len Goodman's plea for BBC to keep free TV licences for over 75s

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Strictly legend Len Goodman has urged the BBC to make a last-minute U-turn on the ­decision to axe free licence fees for over-75s.

The corporation had been due to start charging earlier this year but pushed it back to August 1 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 3million are expected to have to start paying again. But Len has pleaded with the Beeb to reconsider. He said: “Gordon Brown, all those years ago, said, ‘Right, if you’re over 75, you don’t pay for a TV’, which I thought was terrific. “Listen, I’m an old person.

So I thought, not for me personally, but lots of older people, that’s all their connection is, watching a bit of Homes Under the Hammer and a bit of telly. “I hope the BBC decide that, ‘OK, fair enough.

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