Patrick refuses to say which banks her investment group is now going after but admits she picked a fight with the biggest kid on the block Bank of America and its junk-mortgage-riddled Countrywide Financial unit to send a message to the rest of Wall Street.

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Among those were Corporal Lesley Firth, 33, a nurse with the Ministry of Defence hospital unit, who sent a Christmas message to all her family in Grangemouth.

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The claim is that the telecoms companies charge us more per unit of data to send a text message next door than it costs to send a message to Mars.

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While she was in an intensive-care unit, she had tried to get a message to Willingham, but apparently failed.

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"We would urge you to call the Road Policing Unit direct on 0116 248 2017, leave a message and include as much information as you can, such as the person's name, what car they drive, where they live and where and when they could be caught drink driving, " she said.

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It also has a clever little display screen on the top of the unit for displaying caller ID information, the time of day, battery status and message alerts.

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