UK Foreign Office reveals most bizarre requests from Brits abroad

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THE UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office has released a list of this year’s top ten bizarre requests from Brits abroad.

One concerned citizen planning a move to Spain rang the consular over fears he would encounter nudists walking the streets.

A homesick expat asked where he could buy English bacon while a lady in Lebanon rang to recruit an English butler.

Half a million calls were made to the FCO’s consular service last year –which provides emergency help to Britons in trouble overseas.

The service helped 3,250 Brits who were hospitalised, 4,770 who were arrested, and the families of 3,670 who died overseas.

See the full list here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bizarre-requests-from-brits-abroad

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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David says:

7 Apr, 2016 @ 14:19 at 14:19

There are idiots everywhere & sadly the FCO obviously gets their share. The 999 service in the UK is similarly abused with stupid time wasters. I recall reading that one recently dialed 999 because she’d been told by McDonalds to get out & she wanted a policeman to get her back in (apparently she was under the influence which seems to be a common “excuse” for just about anything). The world seems to be getting more & more idiots who think (I use the term lightly) only of themselves.

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