{"id":4637,"date":"2005-07-07T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4637.html"},"modified":"2005-07-07T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T16:04:15","slug":"contacting-friends-and-family-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/contacting-friends-and-family-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Contacting friends and family in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Taylor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/archives\/2005\/07\/time_for_that_l.html\">posted<\/a> a helpful list this morning that I want to pass along.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hotlines The British Transport Police has set up a telephone number for those concerned about a friend or relative. The telephone number is +44 (0) 20 8358 0101. <\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police also have a general hotline number set up; this is 020 7766 6020 (UK), or +44 20 7766 6020 (international). <\/p>\n<p>The United States State Department has also set up a telephone hotline for US citizens with relatives or friends in the area. This number is +1 888 407 4747 (toll free in the United States). <\/p>\n<p>The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has set up an Emergency Hotline on 1800 002 214 and a website to be used if people are unable to directly contact their family or friends in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs has also set up a tollfree emergency hotline on 1800 242 548 for those in Ireland seeking news of friends and relatives in London. <\/p>\n<p>The BBC has just shown a new hotline number: 0870 1566 344 <\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t call these numbers or visit these websites if you do not have a genuine enquiry, they are extremely congested. This will give priority to concerned family and friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Taylor posted a helpful list this morning that I want to pass along. Hotlines The British Transport Police has set up a telephone number for those concerned about a friend or relative. The telephone number is +44 (0) 20 8358 0101. The Metropolitan Police also have a general hotline number set up; this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}