The United Kingdom is considering making households who only use streaming services such as Netflix and Disney pay the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) licence fee, as part of plans to modernise the way it funds the public-service broadcaster.

Netflix and Disney+ users ‘could have to pay BBC licence fee under new funding options’ - Fans of Squid Game and Shogun may have to cough up for more series of The Traitors

Labour is considering expanding the BBC license fee to households that only watch streamed content through apps like Netflix, sources in the government have leaked. The move has sparked outrage as people would have to pay the fee - currently £169.

The BBC World Service has announced it will cut 130 jobs as part of a plan to save around £6m in the next financial year. Planned cost-saving measures include closing posts in the UK and internationally as well as roles in BBC Monitoring, a division which reports and analyses news from media around the world.