Loss of phone line poses health risk

Glen Humphries
Updated July 30 2017 - 7:15pm, first published July 28 2017 - 3:00pm
Aub Emery wears a medical alert bracelet that can call an ambulance via the landline in an emergency, so being without a phone for weeks is a problem. Picture: Supplied
Aub Emery wears a medical alert bracelet that can call an ambulance via the landline in an emergency, so being without a phone for weeks is a problem. Picture: Supplied

Not having a phone line for three weeks is literally a matter of life and death for 90-year-old Aub Emery.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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