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Firms praised for helping keep elderly in touch with their families

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A Perthshire MP has praised the UK’s major telecoms companies for ensuring the elderly and vulnerable are able to stay in touch with family and friends through the lockdown.Ochil and South Perthshire MP John Nicolson last month wrote to the UK Government’s secretary of state for DCMS and chief executive of telecoms regulator OFCOM calling for companies to introduce price caps to daytime telephone calls to facilitate limitless conversations with family, and to avoid cutting off the telephone and broadband lines of customers facing financial difficulty as a result of COVID-19.

Blow for Highland Perthshire as Enchanted Forest event is cancelledOFCOM’s chief executive, Dame Melanie Dawes, responding in writing to the MP, confirmed the regulator

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