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BBC trustee puts her life on the line

BBC trustee Janet Lewis-Jones has been getting her hands dirty, so to speak, following licence fee collectors at work for some on-the-job research for the trust's report into the TV Licensing operation, published yesterday. Lewis-Jones followed the collectors in their detector vans and knocking on the doors of suspected licence fee evaders. Considering that yesterday's BBC Trust report revealed 129 physical and verbal assaults on the collection teams – "and lots more that don't get reported because they think it's part of the job" according to trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons – our Janet is obviously a hardy soul.

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