Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Most lunchtimes I find myself in the queue at my local Sainsburys petrol station ready to pay for my sandwich. All over the shop are A4 sheets of paper warning customers about how they should switch their phones off because of the risk of the phones causing the whole petrol station to burst into flames should they ring while you're filling up your car. I've always been dubious of this, especially as (let's face it) cars drive in and out all day and a very small number their engines cause the pumps to explode.

But researchers at the University of Kent now say this is not so. Of the 243 petrol station fires worldwide attributed to mobiles over the last decade not a single one was actually caused by a spark from a mobile. You can find the whole story here.

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