To all UK broadcast journalists, Bell Broadcasting Channel, part of Premier Bell Holdings Ltd of Dartford, Kent, are in my experience extremely unreliable payers who have often broken the payment terms I agreed with them. They claim to be in financial problems. I am owed thousands of pounds for shifts I have undertaken, money which is seriously overdue. Last week I was forced to threaten them with a debt recovery agency. The boss, Mr Grahame Rowlands is aware of the severe financial difficulties I am in but does nothing to fully honour his company's obligations to me by paying everything on time. I was paid on the 5th March, but only a small proportion of what is seriously overdue. I have lost all faith in them as a reliable paying customer and I suggest that all freelancers approaching them for work take steps to protect themselves financially and in no way rely on them for their livelyhoods.