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BBC TV licence fee for 2024-2025 is increasing in price this year following a two year freeze period.This year, the fee for a colour licence will increase to £169.50 up from the previous £159 fee, while a black and white licence costs £57, increasing from £53.50 last year.According to the TV Licensing website, the government is responsible for setting the level of the licence fee and in December 2023 the Secretary of State announced that the “government would raise the licence fee by 6.7 per cent, in line with inflation, taking effect from April 1 2024.”They add: “This is a rise of under 3p a day and is the first time the licence fee has increased since April 1 2021. The Government decided that the licence fee would rise annually in line with inflation from April 1 2024 for the remaining four years of the Charter period.

Residents are being invited to a Royal Gun Salute at Dumbarton Castle tomorrow (June 8) to mark 800 years of the town being a Royal Burgh.

Read more: Everything happening over the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend in Hull and East YorkshireThe Royal CharterYou don't get more historic than a document written on animal skin with a quill pen made from either a goose or swan using ink made from iron sulphate, gum and fungal growths found on oak trees formed where wasps lay their eggs. Back in 1299 they were the staple ingredients of a Royal Charter. Hull's first Royal Charter from that year formally confirmed King Edward I's ownership of the town, having previously paid the princely sum £103 to the monks of Meaux Abbey to acquire all their land and property in a settlement known until then as Wyke.

The British Film Institute, together with the U.K. government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has started the recruitment process for a new BFI chair, with Josh Berger due to step down from the role in November.