K8 boxes are last in the line of classics, say campaigners as nine still in working order get heritage protection

Nine rare cream-coloured public phone boxes that are still in working order have been given heritage protection by the government.

The K8 phone boxes are all cream – rather than red – because they are in Hull, the only place in England where the local council ran the public telephone network.

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