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.

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 ...

A woman phoned 999 to complain police cars were ‘too loud' and had woken her from her nap. Cambridgeshire Police have ...

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 ...

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.

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

An East Sussex student is calling for emergency services to introduce video in 999 calls to improve accessibility. Daniel ...

A fire on in North Wales could be seen for miles and led to more than 70 calls to the fire service. Emergency services were ...

A woman, aged in her 40s, has tragically died at a Waitrose supermarket in Esher, Surrey, with emergency services called due ...

Some 350,000 calls have been made since April 2018, but a new investigation has found that around two-thirds recorded last ...