A PROPOSAL to remove six public telephone boxes from locations around Tavistock was slammed by town councillors at their meeting last week.

Communications giant BT wrote to the council telling it of the intention to remove the boxes by the cemetery in Plymouth Road, at the junction of Churchill Road and Whitchurch Road, at Crelake Park, Anderton Lane and Hazel Road.

The move is part of a nationwide programme involving some 12,000 public phone boxes.

Cllr Pat Warne said the council should not be ?dictated to by BT? and a letter should be written asking for evidence that the boxes were not required.

Cllr Jenny Metcalf said the boxes at Crelake and at the cemetery were ?very well used?.

Cllr Roger Mathew said the council should go further and ?object strongly? to the removal of the phone boxes.

But he felt to ask for all six to be retained would ?not be taken seriously?.

Cllr Norma Woodcock said with the advent of mobile phones she could accept that some boxes did not get used so much as before.

Cllr Robin Pike successfully proposed the council write to BT objecting to the removal of the out of town boxes and suggesting instead, the company reduces the four boxes in the town centre to one and takes away one public phone box from the bus station.