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Gulf News  | May 10, 2008

London: The BBC admitted yesterday it had failed to pay 106,000 pounds, (Dh763,200) which should have gone to charity from viewers' calls to premium rate phonelines, the latest such scandal to hit broadcasters. The BBC Trust, the body which oversees the broadcaster, ordered the corporation to apolog...
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