Campaigner makes 1700-mile round journey to save rare phone box on remote Scottish island

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Campaigner makes 1700-mile round journey to save rare phone box on remote Scottish island

Daily Mail · 2 hours ago

A campaigner undertook a 1,700-mile round trip to help save a rare telephone box on a remote Scottish island from being removed, highlighting efforts by local communities to preserve historic phone boxes threatened with decommissioning. Such campaigns have become increasingly common across the UK as BT and Ofcom review the future of the dwindling number of public payphones still in service, many of which survive in isolated or rural locations where mobile coverage remains poor.

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  • Campaigner travelled 1,700 miles to protect a rare Scottish island phone box
  • Reflects wider efforts to save historic payphones from removal
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