No Phone Line for 1 week; moving towards urgent!

Hello All, I am posting this on behalf of my father.
Problem
Phone line has not worked for a week; BT broadband works. Context: he lives along a country lane, nearly all his neighbours are experiencing problems with their phone line, broadband or both. Becoming urgent? One of his neighbour's husband died this week and she has had no phone line to organise the funeral. She now has a mobile phone which she can hardly use, she is very elderly. That example was to illustrate that inaction can really affect people.
Actions Taken
1. My Dad phoned the BT fault line. BT (to give them credit) arrived the next day. They checked the wiring inside the house and confirmed the fault lay with BT. They then confirmed that they needed to dig up the road and the job was with 'Planning' and there was nothing more they can do.
Follow Up
1) My Dad did not get a reference from the BT guys that initially visited.
2) He has not heard back from BT of their Planning department.
3) He has tried to phone Customer Services but ends up in India and gets confused. He is elderly as well.
4) He did manage to use the Live Chat function last night and communicated the problem on his line. He got a text today to say it was all fixed and his phone would work. He got home and his phone did not work. Something he could not get his head around since BT texted him to say it would be working. Different generation, different values!!
Conclusion
I guess I am asking for help or advice. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Illogan,
Sorry about the trouble here.
I'll be happy to have a look into this for you and try and get the line up and going again.
Could you drop me in an email please? Use the 'contact us' form in my forum profile under the 'about me' section. You can find it by clicking on my username.
Thx
Craig
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