"Huge" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:32:40 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On 16 Jan 2009 08:52:30 GMT, Huge wrote:

The ambulance service can track the address of a landline phone or
the location of a mobile in seconds....

Not around here.

Nor here.

Or here, I don't think we have even working day ambulance/paramedic
cover now that isn't 1hr away. They'll miss the target for calls out
here but so what? There is an average of 1.5/week it won't affect the
overall score one iota. The fcat it could well cost some one their life
doesn't seem to figure in the Ambulance Services view.

When someone dumped and set fire to a stolen car in a nearby layby, the
fire brigade worryingly couldn't find us.

I have told the Ambulance Service our address and phone number so, in
theory, if we call them our address and location pops up on screen.

We've done that now. We had several long and worrying conversations with
the Fire and Ambulance services. We've lived here 18 years, and they
haven't known where it is all that time? Good thing we never needed them.
I've also been in correspondence with the council for the last 3 years
over putting a road name sign at the junction with the main road. It's
getting to the point where I'm tempted to put one up myself. Anyone know
where you can get standard road name signs made up?

Any signwriting company, although, from experience, some are better than
others. The one we have on our industrial estate is very unimaginative and
seems unable to produce anything beyond a few simple styles The ones I had
signwrite our van are excellent and can make anything you can produce as a
computer image file. Plain white background will be cheaper than
retroflective, but the latter will be more visible at night.

Colin Bignell