Shropshire residents who claim their future is not bright with Orange staged a protest in a bid to have a mobile phone mast removed from near their homes.

Members of the West Felton Mast Protest Group united around the mast on Saturday. More than 40 people attended the protest.

Members of the group say the mast, which is situated near The Avenue, West Felton, could pose a health risk and is a blot on the landscape. It was put up in September by mobile phone company Orange but local people claim they knew nothing of the plans.

The campaigners’ next step will be a public meeting on Wednesday in the village hall at 7.30pm. The guest speaker will be Alan Blood, a leading campaigner for a protest group in Caersws.

The full version of this article appears in the Oswestry edition of tonight’s Shropshire Star

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