Baffled Lynne Lynn is demanding answers from a phone company after being charged for calls she claims she has not made.

Since March the 46-year-old says her phone bills from Yorkshire Cable have listed phone numbers she has apparently dialled - many of them to mobile phones.

But she claims: "I don't know anyone with a mobile - and some of the calls have been made in the early hours when I have been in bed fast asleep."

She says the only other person living in her house in Bankfoot is her 22-year-old son Paul - who does not even recognise the numbers.

"I've been on to Yorkshire Cable all the time telling them I haven't made the calls but they are insisting I have and they have told me to phone some of the numbers to find out who they belong to.

"But that means I would be paying twice which is ridiculous."

She says there are 63 calls on her bill between August 12 and September 10 alone which she claims neither she nor her son made.

Many of those calls last for less than a minute - some for just two or three seconds

A Yorkshire Cable spokesman said the company could not discuss confidential details of customers' accounts but a spokesman said: "We are aware of Mrs Lynn's concerns and we are investigating the situation thoroughly. We will inform her of the outcome of this investigation as soon as possible."

Rights & Wrongs phoned some of the numbers and found they are unobtainable.

Two other numbers were answered and the people on the other end of the phone said they did not know Lynne or Paul Lynn.

In February we reported how two Bradford pensioners had similar problems with Yorkshire Cable.

On one occasion they supposedly made 31 calls to their son in Bridlington in a single day between 10. 32am and 9. 58 pm - and the longest lasted for 32 seconds.

And last year we told how another woman claims she was charged for Yorkshire Cable calls which were dialled - but never got through.

On one occasion she was interrupted before she finished dialling a Leeds number and put the phone down. But her bill charged her for the call even though it clearly showed the last four digits had not been dialled.

On both occasions Yorkshire Cable insisted to Rights and Wrongs that all the calls must have been made.

Mystery call couple are quitting BT in frustration

A Bradford couple who claim they are plagued by "ghost" phone calls have decided to get disconnected - after a BT investigation failed to solve the mystery.

As reported in Rights and Wrongs last month, John and Doris Woodruff received a bill for £78 which included 170 calls made to numbers they say they did not recognise.

The majority were made during the night - although the couple claim they go to bed early - and on one occasion 81 were made on February 27 between 10.26pm and 00.23am the next day to London numbers they did not know. BT has carried out a thorough investigation of the couple's phone line and also checked for signs of external tampering.

But the company says it can find nothing wrong - so the calls must have been made from the phone and the couple will have to pay the bill.

Now Mrs Woodruff, 69, says she has asked to be disconnected.

"I am not getting anywhere and we aren't going to pay for the calls we didn't make," she said.

"It isn't fair that you know you haven't made them but no-one will listen."

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