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The World's first automatic emergency telephone service opened up on June 28th 1937, using the easily recognised number, 999.

The first ever call came in at 4:20 a.m. on July 1st, when Mr. Stanley Beard of Hampstead, spotted a leg disappearing though one of his downstairs windows.

999 was dialed and a police patrol car raced to the spot to arrest burglar Thomas Duffy four minutes later.

Today 2000 staff deal with 14,000 calls a day at a cost of £98 million.

Hops used are Beata & Challenger.