Foreign Office trials emergency texts abroad service

Dawinderpal Sahota
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Foreign Office plans to use mobile communications to warn Brits abroad of crises

The Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) is trialling a service to deliver emergency text messages to Britons facing dangerous situations abroad. The FCO has teamed up with Vodafone UK and all the ...

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