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data-widget-index="1"><h2>The Licence Fee</h2></div> <div class="widget widget-image widget-image-single" data-widget-index="3"><div class="image image-single"><span class="img"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170817182719im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/corporate2/images/width/live/p0/41/4m/p0414mg9.jpg/624" width="624" height="351" alt="" class="thumbnail" data-pid="p0414mg9"/></span></div></div><div class="widget widget-richtext has-pull-quote" data-widget-index="1002"><div class="widget-richtext-pullquote"><blockquote role="note"><span class="widget-richtext-pullquote-quote">The licence fee allows the BBC's UK services to remain free of advertisements and independent of shareholder and political interest.</span></blockquote></div><div class="text"><div class="has_synopsis has_tags"><div class="tags">Category: <a href="/web/20170817182719/http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/search?tag=TV">TV</a></div><div class="synopsis" style=" margin-top: 1em;">The licence fee is 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