Would the last person to leave Yellow Pages please switch on the lights in North Yorkshire?
Yorkshire Electricity simply does not appear in the new information preface of Yellow Pages which has just plopped on to thousands of doorsteps in the region. Under the Household Emergencies category, Northern Electric and Gas is writ large. But Yorkshire Electricity which has 8,000 consumers on the edges of North Yorkshire is conspicuous by its absence. Don’t blame Yellow Pages, though. It’s famous two fingers that do the walking aren’t in a topsy turvy V-sign. Its customer services spokesperson Tricia Fagg says: “There’s no reason why they shouldn’t have appeared. “It’s a free service. We asked and they said no and the customer is always right.” A pink-faced spokesperson at Yorkshire Electricity said: “It was our fault. Yellow Pages faxed through the offer and we assumed that it applied only to York where we have no subscribers, but in fact it covered the whole of North Yorkshire. “Put it down to human error. We got the wrong end of the stick. We’ll know next time…” North Yorkshire
