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Jan 2022
31m 52s

Licence Free?

BBC News
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Government freezes the BBC licence fee for two years. We get the BBC's culture editor, Katie Razzall, to explain what's happening...

And, what happened during the Texas synagogue siege? The BBC's Frank Gardner has all the details (or, at least all the details we know right now).

Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Georgia Coan, John Murphy and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Ash Taylor and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.

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