UK: Save Red Telephone Boxes: A Call to Action

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ES-UK – 16apr2025.

UK: Save the Red Telephone Box North Devon

Good News!

The Action to Save the Phone Box in Combe Martin, North-Devon, got into Devon Live!

On top of this, several BBC Journalists have contacted us – they are looking at doing a bigger feature on Phone Boxes across the UK and now is the time to build on this momentum! The Copper Analogue Landline Network is critical for National Security and needs to be protected in Law. This will need coordinated action and below are Four Actions that you can take for:

National Telephone Action:

  1. Save your Phone Box: Organise a Save/Reinstate Our Phone Box Event and invite the local Press. If there is no Phone Box, demand it back. If it is still there, ensure that the Phone Box is used for the minimum 52 calls per year needed to be kept. If the phone doesn’t work, call BT on 0800345144 (the number is normally on the board next to the phone) and/or email: customer.serv.payphones@bt.com
  2. Phone Home: If you are traveling, make a call from any phone box you can see! If you live in – or visit – North Devon, please call from the coin operated Phone box at Ilfracombe Harbour – the Phone Box with the most beautiful view in the World! If time, make another call from the Phone Box outside the Community Centre on Church Street, Combe Martin – you can park at the nearby carpark by the beautiful St Peter Ad Vincula Church. Calls from there are free to UK landlines and mobiles! If it doesn’t work – they said they would repair it, but I don’t trust ’em! – contact BT on the above number or email address. There is a Community Soup Kitchen near the Phone Box which serves delicious vegan soups on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, so if possible time your call with that!
  3. Contact the Media: Contact the Media to express your concern about a Phone Box (or lack of one) near you and/or the general loss of the Phone Box + the phasing out of the analogue copper landline. Here are contact details for three BBC reporters who have shown interest in the issue:
    Malcolm Prior: malcolm.prior@bbc.co.uk
    Filipa Gaspar: filipa.gaspar@swns.com Andy Alcroft: 07711910990
  4. Contact your MP: If you haven’t done so already, please contact your Political Representative for a visit and request that the Copper Analogue Landline is protected in UK Law. Gladly present the “Save our Copper Analogue Landlines“ Petition, which now stands on well over 2:600 signatures. There are hundreds of poignant comments by the signatories, kindly see enclosed document. which you can present with the Petition. Here is a Draft Email for you to adapt and use.

Draft Letter for MP:

Dear …..

We are writing to request a meeting regarding plans to phase out the analogue copper Landline network which is critical for National security and which urgently needs to be protected in Law.

Our copper analogue landlines are literally Lifelines. They provide a reliable, high quality, secure and affordable voice service, which is essential for the Electro Hyper-sensitive, the elderly, businesses and many others who have chosen not to use Wireless Technology and who do not want an Internet connection.

Dismantling landlines will cost us safety, health as well as jobs and cut off critical emergency communications access to millions of people. Re-investing in our copper telephone landline network will be beneficial for Public Health, Security and Ecology. Copper landlines serve as a necessary, reliable and safe alternative to power-grid dependent, energy-hungry communications systems like VOIP.

During a Power cut, VOIP will not be available which will be a direct danger to life. It will also require the modem to be kept on 24/7 for round the clock access, which will be an energy usurper and hence environmentally detrimental. Mobile back-up systems in their turn are not as secure and they would be harmful to health. Battery back-ups are only temporary (one hour guaranteed) and they are not an option for those suffering from Electro-hypersensitivity (EHS).

People with EHS (now also called EMR-Syndrome) are the Canaries in the Coalmine: All Humans are Electrosensitive and there is no longer any question whether wireless Radio Frequency (RF) radiation – used in mobile phone communications and wireless devices – is harmful to Humans and Wildlife. Commonly identified health consequences of short and longer term exposures include insomnia, headaches and fatigue, as well as other serious and life changing ailments. Tens of thousands of scientific papers (linked herein) have cited connections to the role of EMFs in a multitude of adverse health effects, including depression, infertility, cancer, damage to DNA/gene expression, oxidative stress, pregnancy complications, Melatonin production, neurological disorders, immune dysfunction, Alzheimer’s / dementia, leukaemia, and many, many more.

As this issue is urgent, we kindly ask for an appointment at the earliest available opportunity.

We look forward to your reply,

Yours sincerely,
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Sources – ES-UK newsletter