"A H" wrote in message
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All day long the lazy journalists of the UK media have been giving out the
emergency telephone number for the SE Asia earthquake and subsequent tidal
waves in the format:

'0207 008 0000'

1. I don't think it really matters any more. I'm sick of reading out numbers
to people in the correct way - 020 7xxx xxxx - only to have them not
understand, until I repeat it as 0207 xxx xxxx . I've given up - if you
can't beat 'em, join 'em.

2. I think the people, frantic with worry for the safety of their loved
ones, who call the emergency line have a little more to be concerned about
than how the number is formatted!

Ian