BT puts up 4,800 red phone boxes up for adoption

Communities are being invited to "adopt" BT's famous red telephone boxes - as long as they pay £1.Across England, 3,683 phone boxes are up for grabs as part of the Adopt A Kiosk scheme - and hundreds more are available in Wales and Scotland.More than 5,800 payphones have been adopted since communities by 2008, and old boxes have been given a new lease of life by being converted into mini-libraries, tiny art museums, information centres and even cake shops.