Police have released a number of campaigns in recent years to stop nonsense calls.

They include callers in distress because their low-fuel indicator light had come on, a man calling to say his 50p coin was stuck in a washing machine at his local launderette and he wanted police to retrieve it and a man who did not have change for a parking machine claiming staff at a car park had kidnapped him because they were refusing to let him out for free.

In West Yorkshire, this weekend alone, police have had calls for an electrician, someone concerned about a water leak and someone who had had their shopping delivered a day early.

They tweeted: “Far too many 999 calls today and it is just children making hoax calls.

“This is preventing someone else getting through immediately who could be in a life or death situation.

“Make sure you know what your children are up to.”

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