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400 uses for a redundant red telephone box

One is used as a performance space, several have been turned into bijou galleries and others are finding a second life as information points. The problem of what to do with redundant red phone boxes has been solved in imaginative ways, BT revealed today. It has been running a competition to find the most innovative use of the 400-plus boxes that communities have taken over. The winner of a £5,000 first prize for most creative use of a disused box is Great Shelford in Cambridgeshire. Its box houses a mannequin dressed as a historical or fictional character suggested by local children.

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