On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 17:31, tom petch <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 31/12/2021 16:27, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > > tom petch <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >8 > > And it's 999 or 119 in places, except, I'm told, for small parts of London, > > where it's 0118 999 881 99 9119 7253. > > I am familiar with 0118 but not the rest while 999 is the UK emergency > number for emergency services and 119 has leapt to prominence in the > past year as the place to go for anything Covid-19 related except > lateral flow tests which are out-of-stock after the Government told > everyone to take a test before heading out for New Year's Eve > celebrations. Gosh, is that the date? Quick, I must test and be off out. London area numbers are 020... 0118... numbers are in or around Reading, 42 miles from central London. The prefix can be dropped when calling numbers with the same prefix. When I lived in Ealing the (local) numbers began 998 which is clearly had scope for an accidental emergency call. HNY --rwf
