BBC licence fee to increase by £3 from April

Announcement follows calls for the fee to be made voluntary

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The price of the annual TV licence fee will increase by £3 on 1 April, the BBC has announced.

The fee is set by the government, which said in 2016 that it would rise in line with inflation for five years from April 2017.

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