Fancy a shiny red phone box? Yours for just £1
Time is running out for communities to adopt their local phone boxes.
BT is set to scrap half of the UK’s remaining phone boxes following a fall in usage – including dozens of the iconic red landmarks.
Around 20,000 phone boxes are set to be removed over the next five years following a 90 per cent decline in use over the last decade. It was announced ast year that more than 150 phone boxes in the Black Country and Staffordshire faced being scrapped.
Some of these have already been adopted.
For a nominal fee of £1, BT will remove the phone and hand the kiosk over to the local community.
Some of those already adopted now house defibrillators following a campaign from the Community Heartbeat Trust.
