editorial@hamhigh.co.uk

22 April 2005

PARENTS are right to be worried over mobile masts. There is enough evidence and advice against the safety of mobile masts which have been made public for all to be extremely concerned.

However, campaigners are misguided in using the "not in my own backyard" argument as a valid reason for fighting planning permission for the masts. Surly if the masts are a hazard, and sensible residents have reason to believe they are, then they ought not to be erected at all anywhere near households, schools or workplaces of any kind.

There is only one protest which would really work. Walk your talk. Give up your own mobile phones. Under no circumstances allow your children to use them.

Then, and only then, will protesters be persuasive in their argument.

My partner and I are so concerned about the danger of mobile phones and masts that we staunchly refuse to own a mobile phone and have succeeded in discouraging other family members from using them. We will join any protest in the fight against mobile masts but only alongside those who have refused or forsaken mobiles.

CELINE LA FRENIERE
Talacre Road, NW5