In case you haven't heard, the Digital Britain Report - from those fine folks who gave you the Licensing Act - proposes that we make analogue radios more or less obsolete by (they hope) 2015. Driven by the best motives in advancing the UK into a fully digital society, the proposals would make all our present car radios & portables pretty nigh useless except for local FM (and French Long Wave). Information : Search on "Analogue switch-off" - good article here: Guardian News The Official View: DCMS report Petition: Petition If you agree, fine. If not, now's the time to get cracking, write to your MP, put your heads over the parapet & yell!
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