WE KNOW where you live. That's the message from TV Licensing as detectors start a high-profile blitz in York.

Buses in the city have been emblazoned with posters "naming and shaming" streets where residents have failed to buy TV licences.

The aim is to add to the 120 people caught in the city each month who are hit with fines of more than £400 for failing to get a licence.

A team of detectors is in York this month armed with the latest hand-held detectors which, they claim, can even catch evaders living in high-rise flats.

One poster mounted on the back of a First York bus says: "There are three homes in Etty Avenue YO10 without a television licence".

Another singles out Barkston Avenue.

The Evening Press managed to trace one of the Etty Avenue licence evaders, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

He seemed unfazed that an array of high-tech gadgetry was to be deployed in his street with the aim of bringing him to book.

"I don't have a licence and I haven't had one since I moved here, so I don't see why I should start now," he said.

"I've got more important things to do with my money like putting food on the table and I don't even watch the TV that much anyway""

Asked if he was concerned that detectors would soon be in his street, he said: "I suppose I'll just pretend I'm not in if they come round."

Dorothy Shipley, who also lives in the street, said she would not be caught out as she renews her TV licence as soon as it expires.

She said she thought the name and shame tactics would have mixed results.

TV Licensing spokesman John Barber said Etty Avenue had been picked at random and their records showed that three residents did not have licences. He said that more than 100 evaders were caught each month in York, but that during Operation Target Zero more than 300 could face a court appearance and a hefty fine.

PICTURE: A poster on a York bus which shames TV licence dodgers