Adopting a box so popular.TELECOMS giant BT has received almost 750 applications to "adopt" red phone boxes, and the scheme has been boosted by a similar move in one of the country's most famous fictional villages. Residents of Ambridge in Borsetshire, the setting for BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Radio 4's The Archers, are the latest to adopt their local traditional phone box for pounds 1. If Ambridge was a real village it would be the 46th to adopt their red box under a scheme launched by BT last year allowing a community to retain their red phone box, minus the payphone payphone Noun a coin-operated telephone payphone pay n → Münztelefon nt; (card phone) → Kartentelefon nt , through sponsorship of a kiosk whereby the community contributes towards the maintenance costs to retain the phone box and a working payphone. Roger Vigilance VIGILANCE. Proper attention in proper time. 2. The law requires a man who has a claim to enforce it in proper time, while the adverse party has it in his power to defend himself; and if by his neglect to do so, he cannot afterwards establish such claim, the , chief executive of Payphones for BT, said: "BT's adopt and sponsor a kiosk schemes have proved to be incredibly popular. They allow rarely used phone boxes to continue to play a role in areas where they are still much loved and valued. I hope its new use as an information kiosk will give Ambridge's red box a new lease of life." |
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