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    Hunt also said the Conservatives would reverse two of the main recommendations of Digital Britain - the £6 annual tax levy on telephone lines to help pay for broadband, and the plan to force the BBC to share £130m of licence fee income with other broadcasters. "The BBC is planning so-called passion websites. It might sound well and good for them to have, say, an angling website, but if it drove out of business every angling magazine in the country, you would have to question if it was the right sort of thing to do" Hunt said. He added: "[We will have] a very fundamental root-and-branch discussion with the BBC about all its activities across the piece." Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
    The BBC is planning so-called passion websites. It might sound well and good for them to have, say, an angling website, but if it drove out of business every angling magazine in the country, you would have to question if it was the right sort of thing to do
    Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago