"911", the telephone number for US emergency services, demands an urgent reply.

BBC: The pager rings off

The plans were originally announced in a written statement by the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey, but he was on an official visit in Cumbria and could not reply to Ms Flint's urgent question.

BBC: Government defends further cuts to solar subsidies

That didn't mean I wouldn't take any urgent work calls (I had just one) or reply to a few e-mails.

CNN: We dare you to take a real vacation