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- 15-01-2012: Barningham's "green" kiosk is converted into one of Britain's smallest art galleries
A rare green-painted K6 telephone kiosk in the Teeside village, purchased from BT in 2009, is converted into a mini-art gallery for local residents http://goo.gl/XW8bY - 31-12-2011: Little Eaton Parish Council buys local K6 kiosk to serve as village library
Residents from the Derbyshire village of Little Eaton convert their local telephone kiosk to a book-lending library following a suggestion by the village book club http://goo.gl/zkR6R - 23-12-2011: Innerleithen resident plans to use kiosk to house a life-saving defibrillator
Villager Brian McCrow plans to convert a disused kiosk in the Borders village to house life-saving defibrillator first-aid equipment for the local community http://goo.gl/KOaO5 - 07-11-2011: Former telephone box now houses life-saving defibrillator equipment in the village of Glendaruel
Argyll village phonebox becomes the first kiosk in Scotland to be fitted with a defibrillator unit to help non-medically trained people deliver first aid to cardiac arrest victims http://goo.gl/lyp41 - 06-11-2011: Pub-goers in Essex village set up committee to restore village red telephone box to its former glory
Regulars of the The Bell Inn in Halstead plan to restore disused village kiosk with period signage and advertising after the local parish council purchases the kiosk from British Telecom http://goo.gl/PqkcF - 26-10-2011: Devon village is the latest to have live-saving equipment stored in a disused red telephone box
Telephone kiosk in St Giles-on-the-Heath is fitted with defibrillator equipment to help victims of cardiac arrest receive potentially life-saving treatment http://goo.gl/nWy3n - 15-10-2011: Rutland kiosk unveiled with defibrillator dedicated to the memory of Red Arrows pilot Flt Lt Jon Egging
Morcott villager organises for defibrillator to be housed in disused telephone box to be dedicated to Jon Egging, the Red Arrows pilot who died following a display at Bournemouth Air Festival on 20 August 2011 http://goo.gl/1BBpv - 07-09-2011: Gloucestershire village parish councillors alarmed as electricity bill for kiosk increases ten fold
Parish council in the village of Arlingham hit with a £75 quarterly bill for electricity for the village kiosk, up from £7 for the previous quarter http://goo.gl/HzvZe - 06-09-2011: Northumberland village telephone box gets life-saving equipment to help cardiac arrest victims
Disused telephone kiosk to house life-saving defibrillator equipment for cardiac arrest victims, donated to the village of Ovington by Morpeth Rotary Club http://goo.gl/Mh6z2 - 02-09-2011: South Brent residents protest at the sudden removal of village K6 telephone kiosk
Local residents support moves to retain K6 telephone kiosk on Exeter Road after its sudden removal by contractors on behalf of British Telecom. http://goo.gl/H5mKR - 02-09-2011: Gloucestershire villagers are the latest community to adopt their local K6 kiosk
Residents in the appropriately named Gloucestershire village of Box convert their adopted kiosk into a village book lending library stocked with donated books. http://goo.gl/lcGAA - 24-08-2011: In its 75th anniversary year the K6 telephone kiosk is recognised by the Design Museum
A K6 telephone kiosk is unveiled as part of the Design Museum's "This Is Design" exhibition celebrating British design icons, including the Anglepoise lamp, British traffic lights and British road signs. http://goo.gl/Zt1ca - 11-07-2011: Cotswold village telephone kiosk latest to be fitted with life-saving heart equipment
The 1,500th telephone kiosk adopted by a local community, in Lower Slaughter, is fitted with a defibrillator, to restart the heart of cardiac arrest patients. http://goo.gl/cTQxx - 11-07-2011: Village red telephone kiosk competes for the prize of Britain's smallest public house
Villagers in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire convert village kiosk into a temporary pub - the Dog and Bone - for the local village fete following the closure of the local Plough pub. http://goo.gl/lgiDX - 14-06-2011: North Yorkshire town to consult on plans to adopt town's K6 telephone kiosk
Business leaders in Bedale are to be consulted by the council on plans to adopt the town's K6 kiosk as part of British Telecom's 'Adopt a Kiosk' scheme. http://goo.gl/VfZ1i - 11-06-2011: Vandals attack Grade II-listed K1 telephone kiosk in Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight
The 1921 K1 kiosk, believed to be the oldest working kiosk in the country, was vandalised following a late night party. One window pane was smashed and a further six cracked in a senseless act of vandalism. http://goo.gl/hax6z - 10-06-2011: Hampshire village is the latest to turn its K6 kiosk into a library
The village of Thruxton, near Andover, has converted its disused K6 kiosk into a local library, under British Telecom's 'Adopt a Kiosk' scheme. http://goo.gl/CPWAI - 03-06-2011: Derbyshire residents become the latest village to turn their K6 kiosk into a library
The village of Shirley has converted its disused K6 kiosk into a local library, under British Telecom's 'Adopt a Kiosk' scheme. http://goo.gl/mVRIy - 28-05-2011: North Yorkshire residents convert village K6 kiosk into a local store
The village of Draughton has converted its disused K6 kiosk into a local grocery store, with an honesty box to collect payment for newspapers and groceries. http://goo.gl/xHCHo - 09-05-2011: Devon villagers present K6 kiosk to their 'twin' village of Commes in Normandy, France
Residents of Brampford Speke, including the grandson of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, have purchased and restored a K6 kiosk, to be presented to their 'twin' village in northern France. http://goo.gl/efDkg - 05-05-2011: Surrey telephone box converted to miniature local library
A resident in the Surrey village of Horsley has transformed the village K6 kiosk into a local library stocked with donated books. http://goo.gl/YSjfN - 03-05-2011: Northumberland village adopts local K6 telephone kiosk
Parish councillors in the village of Ovington are looking for innovative ideas for the village K6 kiosk, purchased as part of British Telecom's 'Adopt a Kiosk' scheme. http://goo.gl/G3fRl - 29-04-2011: London-based artist Lizzie Allen produces Telephone Box wallpaper
Artist Lizzie Allen has produced a life-size, hand screen printed wallpaper of a K6 Kiosk, which is available to buy from her website. http://goo.gl/B1jJY - 28-04-2011: New Forest village kiosk becomes miniature community store
Villagers in Emery Down have converted their disused kiosk to house a book and DVD exchange library, vegetables and act as a local information point. http://goo.gl/D6al9 - 28-04-2011: Essex village kiosk transformed into tourist information centre
A disused K6 kiosk in the village of Toot Hill is converted into a 'mini' tourist information centre and rest stop for local walkers. http://goo.gl/DELpW - 27-04-2011: West Sussex village becomes the latest community to 'Adopt a Kiosk'
Villagers in Stedham convert their disused K6 kiosk into a information centre with maps of the area and facts about the local wildlife. http://goo.gl/kaxJX - 21-04-2011: Somerset telephone box converted to local information point
A disused K6 kiosk in the village of Rudge has become an information point, with maps of public footpaths, bridleways and cycle paths in the local area. http://goo.gl/h2S8T - 15-04-2011: Somerset telephone box converted to miniature local library
Villagers in Staplehay have adopted the local K6 kiosk and converted it into a library, and Parish councillor Dee Luke will be act as volunteer librarian. http://goo.gl/PKUlP - 24-03-2011: Use of telephone kiosks by general public in Wales plummets over last couple of years
Statistics from British Telecom show that nearly one quarter of public telephone kiosks in Wales are used to make less than one call per month. http://goo.gl/L3jxB - 10-03-2011: Cornish village phone box transformed into local library
The red K6 telephone box in the village of Point near Truro in Cornwall, is converted to a library allowing villagers to share books. http://goo.gl/xAeJF - 20-02-2011: Listed pair of K6 kiosks in Manchester's St Peter's Square to be restored
As part of the redevelopment of St Peter's Square and the Town Hall complex British Telecom will remove and restore two listed K6 kiosks before reinstating them in 2014. http://goo.gl/cjXkL - 15-02-2011: Local community in Penycae joins together to adopt a K6 kiosk
Councillors in the Tainant area of Penycae agree to adopt community K6 telephone kiosk as part of British Telecom's 'Adopt a Kiosk' scheme. http://goo.gl/pjN9Z - 29-01-2011: Isle of Man K6 kiosk to be restored to former glory
Manx Telecom donates a K6 kiosk to the Jurby Transport Museum where it will be restored by the Manx Transport Trust before going on display. http://goo.gl/PnB54 - 21-01-2011: village telephone kiosk fitted with life saving equipment
The village telephone kiosk in Sherston, Wiltshire, is fitted with a potentially life-saving defibrillator by the Community Heartbeat Trust. http://goo.gl/9fyOq - 20-12-2010: Peterborough kiosk converted to 'cash machine'
British Telecom has unveiled a K6 telephone kiosk in Peterborough that has been unsympathetically converted into a cash machine. http://goo.gl/Ryo91 - 20-12-2010: Kiosk destroyed in hit-and-run incident
K6 kiosk in Newton, Nottinghamshire adopted by Shelford and Newton Parish Council is destroyed in a deliberate, mindless hit-and-run incident. http://goo.gl/3xSgp - 10-12-2010: Tuition fees protestors wreck Parliament Square kiosks
Rioting protestors against a hike in tuition fees wreck two K2 and two K6 kiosks around Parliament Square in Central London, daubing kiosks with grafitti and smashing 132 kiosk glass panes in total. http://goo.gl/Ybssp - 30-10-2010: Pioneering scheme uses telephone kiosk to house life-saving equipment
A K6 kiosk in the small rural Leicestershire village of Carlton, near Market Bosworth, is used to provide residents with access to a potentially life-saving defibrillator unit. http://goo.gl/KsSWq - 19-10-2010: Telephone kiosk on Bath's Royal Crescent given listed status
English Heritage adds 800 new listings for the World Heritage Site-status city of Bath. Included is a grey K6 kiosk overlooking Bath's Royal Crescent. http://goo.gl/ol6nL - 12-10-2010: Telephone kiosk turned into mini art exhibition
A disused K6 kiosk in the village of Prickwillow, near Ely, has been saved by villages and turned into an innovative miniature art venue. http://goo.gl/2FKC2 - 21-09-2010: Telephone kiosk becomes village 'library' in North Yorkshire
A K6 kiosk in the village of Marton cum Grafton is turned into a miniature library by residents after the kiosk was bought by the parish council. http://goo.gl/fivap - 03-09-2010: Telephone kiosk brings new meaning to the word 'convenience'
A retired Somerset salesman has converted a K6 kiosk into a fully-equipped outside toilet at his home near Taunton. http://goo.gl/xXKcb - 30-07-2010: Villagers turn telephone kiosk into mini library
Residents in the North Somerset village of Blagdon have transformed the village K6 kiosk into a 24-hour library stocked with books. http://goo.gl/1c72G - 24-07-2010: Draughton kiosk becomes grocery store
Residents of the village of Draughton in the Yorkshire Dales convert village K6 telephone kiosk into grocery store after local post office is closed. http://goo.gl/K1n5f - 06-04-2010: Villages fight to keep telephone in telephone kiosk
Residents of the North Yorkshire village of Rosedale fight plans by British Telecom to remove the telephone from the village's K6 kiosk. http://goo.gl/Exmhr - 16-03-2010: Vandals attack Folkestone telephone kiosk art installation
Fears expressed for the future of a K6 telephone kiosk art installation by artist Shane Record in the Kent town after repeated attacked by vandals. http://goo.gl/tGxk2 - 22-01-2010: CADW grant to restore 'Tardis' police box in Newport
Wales' historic environment service awards grant of £10,500 towards the repair of a 'Tardis' police box in the village of Somerton, near Newport. http://goo.gl/J9YW3 - 10-12-2009: Red telephone kiosk returns to the village of Hampstead Norreys
British Telecom reinstates a K6 telephone kiosk in the Berkshire village 20 years after it was removed following a campaign by local residents. http://goo.gl/rJLyp - 07-12-2009: New use for old telephone kiosk competition winners
British Telecom announces the winners in its nationwide competition to discover the best new use for an 'adopted' telephone kiosk. http://goo.gl/lVpQc - 29-11-2009: Telephone kiosk gets new lease of life as library
Miniature K6 kiosk library in Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset provides villagers with a library stocked with 100 books, DVDs and CDs. http://goo.gl/VPI75 - 18-11-2009: British Telecom launches 'Adopt a Kiosk' scheme
BT starts a scheme to allow parish councils to adopt under-used K6 telephone kiosks for £1, with the council taking responsibility for the upkeep of the kiosk. http://goo.gl/jJKzF - 19-10-2009: Council fights to 'save' telephone kiosks for residents
Waverley Borough Council in Surrey launches a campaign to keep 46 red telephone kiosks in Surrey in use and save them from being put out of service. http://goo.gl/JwCyX - 23-09-2009: Shropshire hamlet fights British Telecom's new kiosk regime
Residents of Chesterton, near Bridgnorth, fight British Telecom plans to charge £300 a year for kiosk, or are faced with loosing public telephone service. http://goo.gl/o35jA - 17-07-2009: First K8 kiosk given protected listed status
After a two year campaign by the Twentieth Century Society English Heritage has announced the first listing of a K8 kiosk at Shrub Hill Station in Worcester. http://goo.gl/SwZ5N - 11-07-2009: North Yorkshire art gallery opens in telephone kiosk
Residents in Settle, North Yorkshire, have turned the village K6 kiosk into one of the world's smallest art galleries. http://goo.gl/X0xRK - 08-04-2009: Cumbrian village buys red telephone box
Pennington Parish Council buys K6 kiosk in the village of Loppergarth near Ulverston after British Telecom decommissions the public telephone service in the village. http://goo.gl/YCYqM - 05-03-2009: Somerset villagers buy telephone kiosk
Limpley Stoke Parish Council buys village K6 kiosk for £1 from British Telecom to preserve the historic kiosk. http://goo.gl/qD3Mz - 30-01-2009: Campaign saves kiosks for residents in south east Cornwall
Local campaign rallies to save kiosks in Crumplehorn, Trenewen and Talland Bay from being put out of service by British Telecom. http://goo.gl/NRvOa - 29-12-2008: Royal Mail celebrates the K2 in a series of stamps
A series of special stamps have been produced by the Royal Mail featuring iconic British designs including the Mini, Concorde, and the red telephone box. http://goo.gl/Pmgsn
