HT204150 iMessage help - assigning my UK and UAE phone number to iMessage so I recieve messages to both,

I was previously based in the UK and have a UK phone number which was set up to receive iMessages. Now I have moved to Dubai and have bought a pay-as-you-go number with a local company. I use the new card in my iPhone 5s (updating to iOS 8 as we speak) and the Dubai number has associated itself with iMessage. The thing is since i still have and am paying for the other UK phone (and most people still have that contact) I'd like to still receive iMessages to that number to on my iPhone (and other devices too) Can this be done or will it only ever let me have one phone number on my iMessages / iCloud account??
Please help!!
Paul

As far as I know you can only use one number on iMessage. Once you register iMessage with the new number, the old one disappears. I suggest you use your Apple ID as it is always "constant" I use multiple SIMs/numbers and have opened to use the AppleID in order to avoid your problem.

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