TV Licensing is urging Direct Debit customers in Blackburn to check their details online as recent data shows some households’ licences could be registered at the wrong address.

When the cost of the Licence Fee was fixed at £145.50 in 2011, the organisation wrote to 107,865 Direct Debit customers in Blackburn letting them know their licence would be automatically renewed.

As such they would not receive any further contact as long as they kept up their payments.

Due to April’s licence fee increase, around 12 million households are being sent new payment plans for the first time in five years.

So far, eight million addresses have been mailed. but some licence-holders.including a number in the town, have proved to be registered at the wrong address

Spokesman Jason Hill, said: “We’ve been mailing our Direct Debit customers throughout the year to give them their new payment plans, and we’d like them to get in touch to let us know if they have moved house or there have been any other changes to their details. Updating us is easy and can be done online at www.tvlicensing.co.uk/info or by calling 0300 790 6112.”