RADIO

It appears that the United States isn’t the only Western country dealing with unrepentant radio pirates. British government investigators tracking down the U.K.’s illegal radio stations are facing increasingly violent resistance, including ambushes and death threats from the pirate broadcasters, according to a statement issued Tuesday in London by junior Industry Minister John Butcher. The government’s Radio Investigation Service employs 200 technical officers fighting an estimated 115 pirate stations in Britain under the Wireless Telegraphy Act. Unlicensed broadcasting has on occasions blocked frequencies used by the emergency services and even ground-to-air communications at London’s Heathrow airport.