Epsom Guardian

Mobile phone campaigners across East Finchley and Muswell Hill have taken a leaf out of Bob Dylan's song book and penned a protest song to perform at the East Finchley Festival on June 26.

Hammering home their opposition message, the radiation song' will be performed to the tune of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall by Muswell Hill band, the Doggy Jammers.

The band will be joined by a newly formed East Finchley-based protest group, who are collaborating to oppose the installation of a 3G phone mast at the quaint Holy Trinity Church, Church Lane, East Finchley.

For the past seven years the bell spire, where a mast is to be installed, has been the nesting grounds for a tawny own.

Protestors say that they have tried to contact the church's The Rev Laurence Hill to share their concerns, but say they have been continuously snubbed.

The church, through QS4, a firm specialising in negotiating deals between phone companies and churches, is expected to make around £10,000 a year for hosting the mast.

Campaign organiser David Broome, of Church Lane, said: "We intend to ask the vicar what insurance cover there would be that a mast of this power and design will guarantee our health in 25 years' time."

Mr Hill was not available for comment.

4:50pm Thursday 16th June 2005

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