Whitehaven, a small town in Cumbria in the UK is to be the first in England to go completely digital.

Although the campaign has been going on for months with posters and bill boards on every available corner and digital companies offering special packages a survey in July showed that with only 100 days to go, 6,000 out of an estimated 25,000 households had yet to switch their television for digital friendly equipment. An estimated one in ten households have yet to do something about tomorrows change and reportedly electronics shops in the town have been extremely busy over the last week.

Age Concern has set up an information centre to help older residents adjust to the change. Special assistance will be offered across the UK for those over 75, the blind and people will disabilities. The service will cost approximately 40 with those who are on the dole or social welfare and pension credits receiving it for free.

Whitehaven will switch off their analogue TV signal at midnight tonight with BBC 2 to be the first channel to go off air at around 2am.