Deadline looms to save red phone boxes

In a cartoon-like moment, with BT revving the bulldozers and the townspeople standing together in front of the much-loved red phone boxes, the iconic booths have until Saturday to be adopted or face the scrapheap. Techradar reports.

... Over half of the boxes are loss-makers for BT, so it's no surprise the company wants to scrap them... especially as many of them appear to be an 'escort' service ad-venue or a public urinal.

One village has already rescued a box at the princely sum of £1, despite the parish council leader admitting nobody used it.

emily | 2:21 PM | News, Buzz |
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