Village needs loo to make calls

MOBILE phone reception in the tiny hamlet of East Prawle is so bad that the only place you can make a call is standing on a park bench near the public loo.

While hanging around a public loo is normally going to get you arrested, according to Metro, the reception sweet spot has become a focus of village life.

Villagers form orderly queues to use the seat outside the public bogs.

The sweet spot was discovered by a tourist who worked out it was the only place in the cliff-top village where you could pick up network coverage. Apparently you have to stand on the bench, face West and hopefully get a reception. Community leaders in the south Devon village are thinking of investing £100 to build a 'phone throne' because the park bench is in danger of collapsing.

However District councillor Julian Brazil told Metro that there is no way that the locals would allow a phone mast in their back yard and would rather queue by the loo.

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