BANDSTAND campaigner Marisa Dale is telling a mobile phone company to buzz-off after being bombarded with bills for a phone she has never owned.

For more than a year, bills for an account with the One 2 One network have been dropping through Miss Dale's letterbox, even though she has never owned a mobile phone and doesn't know how to use one.

Miss Dale, of Raymond Avenue, originally thought the bills were adverts, until her hairdresser saw one and told her what it was. She now believes that her name has been picked out of the phone book and used fraudulently, with letters addressed to a Mr M Dale.

Demands have now been received from four separate debt collection agencies, and with each passing month, the demands become more final and more urgent. Every time Miss Dale contacts the companies, she receives an apology and assurances that the demands will stop. Then new bills arrives from a separate agency.

Miss Dale, pictured with just some of the bills, now fears that her home will be blacklisted by creditors, or worse still, that bailiffs might arrive on her doorstep.

She said: "It's been frightening, bewildering, and a long drawn out nightmare, I'm wondering what's behind it all.

"It could blacklist me for other things because it's making out that I don't pay my bills which I do, I'm up front with everyone.

"I'm not even interested in having a mobile phone, I live a simple life."

Friends, angry at the distress caused to Miss Dale, have rallied around, telephoning the credit companies concerned, in an attempt to bring the matter to an end, but the bills keep on coming.

Following enquiries made by the Bury Times, One 2 One has promised that the bills will stop.

A company spokeswoman said: "As far as we were concerned the debt was cancelled in May. There's obviously been a communication problem with the credit companies, but we have got in touch with them and apologise for the inconvenience.

"This type of fraud happens from time to time and we take it very seriously because its also a problem for us.

"We are always working on ways to try to minimise it."

But Miss Dale is not satisfied and is demanding a financial goodwill gesture from One 2 One which would enable her to to complete work on a bandstand in Clarence Park, for which she has long campaigned.