The children keeping their local phone box in use

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The children using their local phone box

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When was the last time you used a phone box?

In one Gloucestershire village phone boxes are regularly being used by children because of mobile phone signal black spots in the area.

Young mountain bikers and other people living in North Nibley, near Wotton-under-Edge, rely on their two red phone boxes to contact home when out in the nearby woods.

Earlier this year, one of the phone boxes - described as a "lifeline" - was saved from being disconnected.

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