🛎️ New Emergency Alerts system 🛎️ A new Emergency Alerts system to safeguard and protect lives across the UK has been launched today. It will transform the UK’s warning and informing capability, providing a means to get urgent messages quickly to nearly 90% of mobile phones users in a defined area when there is risk to life, providing clear instructions on how best to respond. Look out for our first test SMS text message on Sunday 23 April. More details here: https://www.gov.uk/alerts | UK Gov