‘The van was only a gimmick’: secrets of the TV licence inspectors

From ostentatious vehicles to Hitchcock-style horror adverts, attempts to catch ‘TV spongers’ have moved with the times. But entirely new challenges loom in the era of streaming and in the wake of the Tubridy scandal

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The authorities used to try to scare the living daylights out of householders so they would pay their TV licences.