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Just down the road from you near Lewisham and i pay our BB and TV & Phone separately too.
We originally paid it all by Direct Debit but after about 3 months worth of complete incompetence in taking their own money we eventually began just paying over the phone by card.

When we upgraded the BB to sacm some months later though we again had to use Direct Debit.I did`nt want to use DD with VM again,not after the time spent sorting out their previous mistakes but i agreed to at least pay the Broadband by DD.
The best of it was we still paid the £5 non dd charge on the TV & phone bill for long enough but i`ve had that stopped now too.I mean we only stopped using DD in the first place because of their own incompetence.
I should really chase every single £5 charge back too.