A "persistent" nuisance caller has been sentenced for misusing the emergency services 999 phone number by displaying abusive and sexually explicit behaviour towards staff. Richard Bowles, of Woodstock ...

The Emergency SOS feature designed to help users contact emergency services on Android phones is easy to activate by mistake, causing a rise in “butt dials” to the UK’s 999 switchboard.

There will be one major difference between 999 and 101 - unlike the well-known emergency services number, callers using 101 will be charged 10p per call from both landlines and mobiles.

They said: "If you ever need to call 999 for an ambulance, here are five useful things to do before help arrives. "If you're in the street, stay with the patient until an ambulance arrives. "Call us ...

On September 7 at 3 pm, millions of phones and tablets throughout the United Kingdom will buzz out a loud siren as part of a trial of the government's Emergency Alerts system.

UK police agencies have witnessed a disturbing rise in unintended 999 calls. On Saturday, there was an unusual spike in calls-nearly 9,500 to the 999 emergency line and another 3,000 to non ...

UK regulator Ofcom has launched a probe into BT after the 999 emergency call service suffered an outage across the UK on June 25.

The government has announced measures to beef up the resilience of the UK’s 999 emergency call handling system. This comes nine months after communications regulator Ofcom launched an ...

Emergency Services Disrupted For Hours Due to a technical difficulty, the UK's police, ambulance, and fire and rescue services asked the public to refrain from dialing 999 on Sunday morning.

They could restrict it to emergency services by refusing to register mobile stations or allow low-precedence-level calls on base stations located within the Underground.

A frontline worker has set up a peer support group for emergency service staff dealing with mental health struggles.

Cleethorpes will host its first 999 Rescue Day to honour the emergency services which keep us safe. The prom along the resort ...