I was in work on Monday minding my own business, getting on with what I had to do when my mobile phone rang.

I checked the caller ID and it was an 01925 number so it was patently someone calling me from Warrington.

I'm quite careful about who I answer calls from but with it being a local number, it could have been anyone, my dentist, the garage I use, my wife working at a different building from her normal one.

So I answered it.

It was what sounded like a young woman on the other end of the line.

She was very pleasant, knew my name (which isn't the one I'm known by) and proceeded to tell me that if my boiler was more than seven years old a government scheme meant I might be able to get a new one for free, or something like that.

To be honest, once I realised it was some kind of scam marketing call, I sort of tuned her out.

I gently told her that as I was in work, it wasn't the sort of call I could take.

In reality, I would have hoped that would be the end of it.

But no.

On Tuesday, I was in work minding my own business, getting on with what I had to do when my mobile phone rang.

I checked the caller ID and it was an 01925 number so it was patently someone calling me from Warrington.

You know how this goes. It could have been my dentist, wife, garage etc so I answered the call (yes, I fully realise I should have blocked the spam call the day before or at least taken note of the number.)

Anyway, this time it was a very pleasant young man who also knew my name (but not the one I'm actually called by who told me, you guessed it, that if my boiler was more than seven years old a government scheme meant I might be able to get a new one for free, or something like that.

Same company, same spiel, different day.

It's all very wearing. I explained, not quite so patiently this time, that I was in work and couldn't take spam marketing calls, that my boiler was newer than seven years, that I had told them the day before I wasn't interested and that if they didn't take me off their database, I was going to report them to Ofcom.

He mumbled some sort of vague apology and hung up.

In case you are interested, the call came from 01925 394204. It's obviously some kind of call centre operation.

According to the who-calls.me.uk website, 01925 394204 is a landline and located in Warrington and at the point I checked it out, the number had been searched 669 times.

Calls started on January 29, 2019 and this number was searched from Dunfermline, Ashington, Inverness, Wirral, London, March, Musselburgh, Glasgow, Gloucester, Birmingham and Cowdenbeath so the scammers are obviously spreading their net fare and wide.

Interestingly, the number also appears on 180info.co.uk, another scam reporting website.

More recent reports suggest that like me, it was the free boiler 'offer' but earlier reports suggest it was one of those really annoying accident claims companies.

I thought there were laws to stop this. In any event, I've now done what I should have done in the first place and blocked them.

I found the news this week that seven Labour back benchers had resigned from the party and formed an independent group. Luciana Berger looked close to tears when she spoke about institutional bullying and anti-Semitism within the party.

But I found the statement by Labour MP Peter Kyle to Sky News most telling: "A Jewish woman has been bullied out of the Labour Party. We must ask ourselves what side of the line do we stand on."

A good question indeed and one I would put to the town's two MPs.

Helen Jones said she will not be bullied out of the party and will ‘stay and fight’ for her constituents.

I checked Faisal Rashid's Twitter feed to see what he thinks about the situation. Sorry, I still don't know what he thinks.

He insists he will stay in the party and fight to change it from within.