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The TV licence fee scandal: why are 1,000 people a week being casually criminalised?


Each year, tens of thousands of UK citizens are charged with non-payment of their TV licence fee – from the man who missed payments while in hospital, to a woman with a brain injury who forgot to pay.


Hard News
Example of clickbait due to people being curious to why people are being criminalised over something so small. Others in the smaller minority may also relate to this experience.

I thought I was a healthy eater but when I tried to avoid ultra-processed foods for a day I realised it's more complicated than I thought (not to mention expensive)


Every time ultra-processed foods hit the headlines, it seems to get worse and worse.

We’ve known for some time that they’re not great for you, but it turns out that if you eat a lot of them - it could be harming pretty much every part of your body, with experts comparing them to cigarettes in terms of the damage they can cause.

According to a major review of research, eating a lot of ultra-processed foods - including things like ready meals, sugary cereals and all sorts of other (often great-tasting and tempting) foods - you could risk increasing your chancesof 32 health problems from cancer and Type 2 diabetes to issues with your mental health.

Soft News

This may be considered a form of quality journalism because it highlights the dangers of processed foods.

Christian Horner cut a lone figure in Bahrain today, with his wife Geri Halliwell said by friends to be 'highly unlikely' to fly out to join him after the leak of a series of humiliating text exchanges between the F1 boss and a female subordinate. But yesterday, a series of WhatsApp texts and photographs were released to dozens of journalists and key figures in sport, throwing the scandal back into the public into the spotlight once again.

Soft News

This is form of clickbait and addresses drama in order to get some clicks.

More than 100 evacuated and nearly a dozen injured after fire in South Kensington


Eleven people have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a converted terraced house in the upmarket London neighbourhood of South Kensington.

Fifteen fire engines and about 100 firefighters were called to the fire at a terraced house converted into apartments on Emperor’s Gate, in the south-west of London, close to the Natural History Museum.

Hard News

This is form of clickbait due to getting people to click over a traumatic scene.




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