Villagers' succesful call for their red phone box's return

When a red phone box on Shropshire's Brown Clee had to be taken away after being hit by a motorist, locals in a nearby hamlet refused to accept the landmark had gone forever.

After numerous appeals to BT for a replacement replica booth fell on deaf ears, residents in Abdon, near Bridgnorth, decided to put the matter right and launched a fundraising campaign to buy their own red box.

They raised almost £1,000 from two community tea parties and used the cash to spruce up a replica phone box donated by staff at The Swan in Knowle Sands.

It has since been set up next to BT's replacement metallic box at the same site.