DEPUTY mayor's wife Tricia Cavill is leading the fight to prevent a Marlborough phone box being removed.
As revealed in the Gazette last week BT is intending to do away with a number of telephone boxes in Marlborough.
It is part of a national cost-cutting exercise by BT which intends to do away with a total of 30,000 of its 126,00 phone boxes.
A spokesman for BT said: "So far we have removed about 10,000 and in this financial year we propose to take away a further 10-12,000."
Mrs Cavill, whose husband Bill is deputy mayor, lives just across the road from the phone box in Cherry Orchard.
She has applied for the telephone kiosk in Cherry Orchard, an old red K6 type box, to be made a listed building.
In a letter to the Department of Culture Mrs Cavill wrote: "Not only does is serve the people of the area but it is in good condition and of the old type with the horizontal panes of glass in its sides which fits in with the ambience of this historic town."
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