Phones across the country are set to receive a new emergency alert from the government today but they can easily turn it off.
The new system, which will ring from every phone in the UK as a trial, will be set off at 3pm. It is a test run of giving the country warnings for 'life-threatening situations'. Systems like this are already in place in other countries such as the US, Canada and the Netherlands.
The trial of a system, which is designed to warn the public if there is a danger to life nearby, will go off at 3pm and will last for about 10 seconds.
