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What should the £10m deception fine money be spent on?

· Fund a licence-fee reduction. If the BBC can afford to launch a new magazine exclusively for the US (where no one pays the licence fee), then it can afford to take the cut. Or ... fund a five-year non-broadcast sabbatical for Eamonn Holmes and Alan Titchmarsh. Bakelite

· How about getting producers Ant and Dec a couple of BlackBerrys out of it? That way, when those big decision are made, someone can cc them in and let them know what's going on. Because it's clear they didn't have a clue what was going on last time. Then again I suppose they'll be far too busy traipsing round the country in Cowell's Freak Factor laughing themselves rich at singing dogs and geriatric jugglers to answer them. Howay the lads, eh? phonelinesnowclosed

· Hookers and gin. Seriously though, there isn't much you can spend £10m on that would make much of an impact in the great scheme of things.

If the government did say that they were going to direct the money to a specific purpose, chances are that most people would never hear about it. Kelme

· Serious suggestion: bumper year for the
Community Radio Fund
? Ollybenson

· How about funding some kids' TV, as £10m is roughly what CiTV would spend every four months before they decided to replace it with repeats of Morse? Docklandser

· They could use it to fund a new 24-hour shame channel on Sky - really cheaply done but just have a rolling presentation of pictures of the executives who stole the cash. Then have viewers vote on who should be the most vilified (votes cost £1 each). MattEmulsion

· Funding a licence fee cut? What the hell would the cut be ... 0.0005p each licence-fee payer? Consider the expenditure

· How about spending it on mounting a criminal prosecution against the guilty parties? Just a thought. lorenzo1

· You could spend it on MPs' increase in pay this year. Gord knows they deserve it, see here.

· If not we could always renew Jonathan Ross' contract for just under two years at the Beeb. Or you could freeze any increase in the TV licence next year. enLondres

· The government should spend it on a maths lesson for media people, honestly - £10m put towards the licence fee (which raises a total of £4,400m) is 1/440th of the fee. So, that would equate to 31.7p off the cost ... Given that the fee increases by £2.72 next year, 31.7p won't get anywhere near. Briantist

· They're at it again ... Psychic phone lines. Try contacting the ghost of Grade's zero tolerance pledge. ilfordpeach

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