How to Identify and Block A Premium Rate Call To a UK number on an iPhone

If the number just rings you once it is probably a premium rate nuisance call. If it is your family and they nudge the phone and call back accidentally, they will call again.

To find out who called, type the number into Google. Up comes who-called.co.uk

They will alert you to codes starting premium rate numbers. The one I just checked started 0843, which I saw charges about 45 p in the UK on top of your call providing about 10p per minute. (Other numbers from overseas could be higher charges.)

To block the caller on an incoming number on an iPhone, I was shown in the Apple shop, you tap on information. Scroll to the end of the options and you see block this caller. Tap on block. (The number is still in your recent calls, if you want to check the number again - for example, if you want to list the number and make comments for the benefit of yourself of others receiving calls from the number.

Watch out that you don't accidentally click on it and call the number. I would delete it as fast as possible, so you don't call it back, neither does anybody else using your phone and searching for a recent caller's number.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

The Apple Watch - What It does for you and your friends

You can see the new Apple watch displayed in Apple stores. Even if you don't want to look at it, videos of hints and tips on using it appear on screens on walls of the big Apple stores.

It has lots of new and amusing features. Your friends faces appear on a clock face so you pick one. They are also co-ordinated, matched by number. So number one could be your spouse, boss, or oldest child, or mother. Instead of hunting down through an alphabetical list of dozens of names, you just go to one on the clock face to pick Mum or call the boss.

I was thinking of putting this on my list for a birthday party gift. Even though the price of the cheapest watch is more than I would budget for this birthday gift, I could give a contribution. So two or more people got together, or contribute some money towards it so the birthday boy or girl can top up the fund.

But there's one problem. The watch is not an independent item. It's an accessory to an iPhone. First you need to have you bulkier iPhone with you. (So no good when swimming or sunbathing on the boat if you are about to dive in the water.) Secondly you need to have an iPhone. So I can't give it to anybody who is not on the system, even as an introduction to Apple.

No, I shall just have to wait until somebody buys me an iPhone watch. And the iPhone I need to go with it.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, speech trainer.