BBC: "Mobile phone firm T-Mobile has backed down after telling a couple they owed more than 8,000 [stlg] run up by thieves.
Zyg and Rosemary Gregorek, who own a fishing complex at Halwill near Holsworthy, Devon, were on holiday in South Africa when the phone was stolen from a suitcase in Johannesburg.
They only realised it was missing when they got back to Britain. "