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Eddie Mair | 11:51 UK time, Friday, 2 January 2009

Michael Buchanan reports on this tonight, and writes for the Blog:

"Forget your plasmas, interactivity, even your remote controls. Instead revel in the pleasure of watching television in black and white. Matthew Stevens is one of only 30,000 people in the UK who have a black and white tv licence.

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He doesn't watch TV at this angle though he lives in a small flat which is one of the reasons he has this set, which he dug out of his mother's loft. (Doesn't Anne Robinson look even more scary in black and white?) He says the TV makes everything look more classy - even the rubbish. Clearly he's never watched I'm a Celebrity...

Even smaller than Matthew's screen is this one,

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which belongs to Kirsten Hearn:

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Its almost invisible in her London flat. And though she says it can be a total pain to have to tune it, Kirsten's perfectly happy with it as she's blind and merely listens to the TV. And being blind she pays only half the £47 licence fee."

(I appreciate this posting may look a little familiar...)

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