Jul 29 2005

By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

PROTESTERS have gained victory in their fight against a mobile phone giant.

T-Mobile were yesterday told by councillors they could not put a mast up - to the delight of villagers from Scholes, near Holmfirth.

More than 240 objections were received from people living near the Lea Mills site, off St George's Road.

It was feared the 60ft timber mast would get the green light after Kirklees Council planning officers recommended councillors agreed to the plans.

But councillors changed their minds when they visited the site yesterday morning.

At the Town Hall planning sub-committee, chairman Clr Annie Smith proposed the plans were thrown out.

"I think this mast is against the visual amenities of the people living nearby," she said.

"In the winter time it would be seen in its entirety. I would like to propose that we turn this down on these grounds."

Clr Smith had already told objectors that councillors could not turn the application down on health grounds, because the Government had deemed mobile phone masts to be safe.

But chairman of the Scholes Residents' Association, Peter Murray, said people remained worried about the risks.

"No-one can say completely these things are safe," he said after the victory.

"This mast would have been near homes, schools and nurseries and until we know more about the effects I think that would have been dangerous and irresponsible.

Omega we know enough about the effects. See under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

"We are absolutely delighted at the decision. We were not confident, but it proves the worth of site visits.

"When the councillors came out to see the site and what the mast would be like, they could understand the human impact it would have.

"There were 243 applications against this mast. We thought it would go through and democracy would not be done. We were wrong."

Jul 29 2005

ic Croydon, London

PARENTS and residents are urging Croydon planners to throw out a scheme to set up multiple mobile phone masts on the top of a bus garage.

T-Mobile has applied to the council to put up six pole-mounted antennae, three equipment cabins and other equipment on the roof of the Arriva garage in Brighton Road, South Croydon.

Residents lost a previous battle to stop a mast being put on the roof, but their concern has been heightened by the fact that T-Mobile's plans are for so many more.

The garage is in a residential area and close to Purley Oaks Primary School, in Bynes Road.

School governors are planning to submit their own objections, but more than 70 parents have already signed a residents' protest petition.

The petition draws attention to worries about the affect radio waves from the masts might have on children living in the area.

John Allen, of Napier Road, one of the petition organisers, said: "I have a two-year-old daughter and am worried about the dangers there could be to her health."

Mr Allen said the opposition was having to be move very quickly as objections have to be lodged with the council by August 8.

But he said about 150 signatures had been collected in a day, a response which delighted him.

A statement from T-Mobile said it aimed to minimise the effect on the local environment when seeking new sites for masts, but pointed out that the growth in the use of mobile phones demanded a network of base stations such as this plan.

The statement added: "The radio waves from nearby base stations are favourable compared to exposure from distant masts and from TV and FM radio and other transmitters."

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Wrexham Leader

20.07.05

RESIDENTS fighting to prevent a mast being built in their community, have claimed a victory over mobile phone giants Vodafone.

Wrexham Council’s planning committee voted to refuse a planning application to build a 12m mast on land off Sontley Road, Wrexham, just 20m from a children’s play area.

Residents were up in arms when just 20 of them were notified about the plans earlier this month and they formed a resident’s group to fight the proposals.

John Williams, who spearheaded the residents’ campaign, spoke of his delight at the decision.

He said: “We were all pretty much ecstatic but it’s an on-going battle. It seems mobile phone companies have had a fast track to planning permission in the past.

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“We’re just householders, not legal experts, but if we have to get some money in a pot and get a solicitor we will.”

At the meeting, Mr Williams addressed the town’s planners, stating the main reason for the residents’ concern was the health of local children.

He said: “There are two pre-school children at the Squire Yorke, less than 20m from the mast. There are eight children within 100m. Most of the residents have a genuine fear of living near microwave radiation.”

Cllr George James, local member for Hermitage, said a recent report had concluded that mobile phone masts do cause harm. He said: “There are dangers that are being swept under the carpet.”

Wrexham’s planning control manager tried to reassure the committee that the mast met with Welsh Assembly regulations.

He said: “If it meets the international regulations it should not be relevant for the local authority to defer on health issues.”

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http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

He added that the radiation levels were of “minuscule proportions.”

The Northern Scot

29.07.05

NEW Elgin householders are furious after learning that a controversial plan to site a mobile phone mast on their doorstep has been revived.

An application by communications firm O2 was thrown out by Moray Council in March after being met with mass opposition from local residents.

But the company has lodged an appeal against the decision with the Scottish Executive and is seeking to have the council's ruling overturned.

Home owners near the proposed site in Glen Moray Drive only learned that an appeal had been submitted by O2 on Tuesday.

A reporter from the Scottish Executive visited New Elgin yesterday (Thursday) to inspect the area where the 15 metre mast could be erected.

Angry residents, who fear the mast will endanger their health, turned out in force to meet Timothy Brian and representatives from O2.

Margaret Thorburn organised a petition which was submitted to the council at the time the application was determined in March.

She said she was amazed that the appeal had been lodged without the residents being informed by O2, the Executive or Moray Council.

"When the application was refused by the council, we thought that was the end of the matter. We were never told that O2 were going to appeal, " she said.

"What is the sense in even having a council if the Scottish Executive can come in and overturn a local decision? They would be as well bypassing the council altogether, " she said.

Only one couple, Albert and Ruby McWilliam, were made aware that the site inspection was to be carried out by the reporter.

They lodged an objection

Edinburgh Evening News

30.07.05

PLANS to erect a mobile phone mast near a home for the elderly, a children's day care centre and a medical practice are set to be turned down.

The application by T-Mobile would have seen the 40ft mast put up in Mountcastle Drive South, Bingham.

The company wanted to erect the mast near the pavement, but almost 50 letters of objection were submitted to the council.

City planners have recommended the application be refused, as it is "detrimental to the visual amenity of the area".

BBC

30.07.05

Residents in Derby have staged a march against plans for two new mobile phone masts in their communities.

They walked between the war memorial on Shelton Lock Green and the Red Lion pub in Chellaston.

Protestors said the masts for Vodaphone were going to be positioned in inappropriate places close to the junior school and the war memorial.

Planning permission has been granted for the firm to erect a mast on the junction of Derby Road and the Parkway.

The second site on the green has yet to be given approval.

The residents were joined on their march by the South Derbyshire MP, Mark Todd.

In a message dated 27/07/2005 10:34:40 GMT Standard Time, GILLARROW writes:

Dear Stacy,

My sincere apologies! I was interrupted, and when I came back I had somehow inadvertently sent your email without signing it. I am really sorry. Here is the finished, signed email and the premature email forwarded.

Very sincerely,

Gill Lyden



Dear Stacy,

Thankyou for your reply to my email. I hear that there is a difference between emissions from television, computers and other electrical appliances; the difference being that the latter are not pulsed and those from base stations are pulsed at a rate dangerously close to waves from our brains.

There have been 3 cases of stroke near the Orange mast in Kensworth and one 51 yr old man had a severe heart attack/stroke in late summer 2004 100 metres from mast (his wife and a lady living opposite [who also has insomnia and headaches] have reaised white bloodcell count for which their doctors can find no explanation. (See 'The Pandora Document' re: American Embassy in Tchaikovsky Street Moscow in 60s and 70s.)

One man about 20 metres from the mast had a stroke on first activation of the mast in September 2001 and a severe stroke at the end of April 2002 when the mast was turned on again after a period of inactivity he is now disabled.

Two pets have died after suffering restlessness, sometimes meowing or howling in apparent pain, the symptoms coinciding with activation of the mast. The cat was operated on for a tumour in the throat, was never able to eat properly again and died last year; the dog had small growths all over its paws and neck and died within a year of the mast's arrival. Both animals refused food and kept throwing up orange vomit (they were 16 to 30 metre from th mat).

Other animals up to 100 metres from the mast have also developed tumours on paws.

If you have seen this document, you have read about the scientific tests which proved beyong doubt that emissions from the Transmitter inSchwarzenburg had caused all the suffering endured by residents for around 30 years. The fact that melatonin was found to be reduced in animals and humans is quite enough explanation for people near emissions to have developed benign tumours; sarcomas etc. as without it the tcelss which kill off mutated cells are not activated and therefore anyone with a propensity through genes to develop cancer is likely to do so.

Why are you ignoring this and when will your team and other experts insist on bringing this to the attention of our blinkered government?

(This should have been the ending of my email to you). There is plenty of evidence now in the public domain which proves that EMR frequency emissions cause similar symptoms and damage to health wherever they have effects, not least the list of the most usual and basic symptoms of Chronic insomnia and headaches; nausea and vertigo; earache and tinnitus; sore bloodshot eyes; nosebleeds; rashes etc.

There is evidence in the book by Paul Brodeur, 'The Zapping of America' for instance, that thermal emissions (microwaves) alone can cause cataracts to develop in certain circumstances (Dr. Milton Zaret, 1960s, an opthalmologist and clinical associate professor of opthalmology at the New York University, Chapter 5. pages 54 to 65) and that:-

Page 52- Dr. Allan Frey (a biophysicist doing research into the effects of microwaves upon the nervous system at Cornell University for the GEC and for the Office of Naval Research in America in the 1960s) noted that (Page 51, depending on the width of the pulse and its rate of repetition), radio-frequency sound was perceived as buzzing, ticking, hissing or knocking; ( See; 'tinnitus' suffered by residents of Kensworth) that it could be induced several hundred feet from an antenna the instant the antenna's transmitter was turned on; that it could occur at average power densities far below the (in those days 'safe' American level) ten milliwatt level"; could be perceived by people who were blindfolded and people who were deaf and that it always seemed to come from within or a short distance behind the head.";

I hope you and the Essex Team will do everything you can to prevent the injustice of forcible positioning of masts too close to habitation and to note the suffering of those heroes, who knowing the damage that can be done to their health, still volunteer to be 'zapped' in your laboratory as well as suffering in their own homes in the hope that the evidence you collect will be used to prevent: A) Masts being erected too close to homes and B) Phone companies from encouraging children to use mobile phones. Yours sincerely,

Gillian Lyden.

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Here's the answer to my email. They are not committing themselves to any discussion.

Best regards,

Gill Lyden


Dear Gill,

Many thanks for your comments and observations. If you would like to learn more about our research protocol please follow this link: http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/EHS/pages/phase_2.htm

Kind regards, Denise Wallace

EH Study Professor Elaine Fox Professor Riccardo Russo Dr. Stacy Eltiti Denise Wallace Konstantina Zougkou Electromagnetics and Health Laboratory Department of Psychology University of Essex Wivenhoe Park CO4 3SQ Telephone: 01206-87-3784

Subject: RE: There is already proof of adverse effects! Date:

29/07/2005
10:31:40 GMT Standard Time From: ehstudy@essex.ac.uk Subject: RE: There is already proof of adverse effects!
Date: 29/07/2005 10:31:40 GMT Standard Time From: ehstudy@essex.ac.uk Reply To: To: GILLARROW

Published in News & Star on Wednesday, July 27th 2005

VODAFONE will hold an exhibition tomorrow about its plans to erect a mobile phone mast in the centre of Morton in Carlisle.

The telecommunications giant wants to put up a 10-metre high mast on the pavement outside Morton Community Centre in Wigton Road to provide 3G coverage.

All 50 parents and staff from Manor pre-school in the community centre will fight the plans because they fear the mast will damage their children’s health.

Vodafone did look at another site near the BP Garage in Wigton Road but changed its mind after public opposition and city council advice.

Vodafone will hold the exhibition at Morton Community Church in Stonegarth between 4.30pm until 7.30pm.

After consultation, a planning application will be made.

Jul 27 2005

By Neil Elkes, Birmingham Evening Mail

VILLAGE campaigners were celebrating today after winning a two-year battle to see off a controversial mobile phone mast on their doorstep.

Telecom giant T-mobile has walked away from a site at Wishaw, near Sutton Coldfield, ending the lengthy stand-off with campaigners.

Villagers, who blame the mast for a cluster of cancer cases and illnesses, today hailed the climbdown as a victory for the man in the street.

Sutton Coldfield MP Andrew Mitchell has been told the company has no intention of re-siting the mast in Bulls Lane.

Villagers who founded SCRAM (Seriously Concerned Residents About Masts), blockaded the site after the 22m mast was pulled down by vandals on Bonfire Night in 2003.

The blockade became a symbol and rallying point for anti-mast campaigners all over the UK and Europe.

Construction lorries were unable to get to the site after the company was denied access by neighbouring landowners.

SCRAM founder Eileen O'Connor, aged 41, who blames her breast cancer on the mast, said they are now looking to buy the tiny site in Bulls Lane to ensure the company can never return.

She said: "We were devastated by the thought of a new mast in Bulls Lane. This lifts a real weight off our minds.

"We do feel that the threat of a new mobile phone mast in our community will always exist until we own the land."

T-Mobile's community affairs manager John Shaughnessy told Mr Mitchell the company has no intention of developing the site at Bulls Lane and no interest in the location.

Here is (I hope!) a complete copy of my letter to the lady.

http://www.omega-news.info/patricia_hewitt.doc
http://www.omega-news.info/cherry_brief.doc

Gill Lyden

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From Karen Barratt

Mast Sanity wrote to Patricia Hewitt re: mobile phone use by children on 17 June. To date there has not been a reply or acknowledgement of any kind.

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I have written to both Sir William Stewart and Beverley Hughes to ask about the distribution of the "Mobile Phones & Health" leaflets and also highlighting the scandal of the hard sell aimed at children.

At the moment they are studiously ignoring me, despite the fact that Sir William acknowledged my first communication on this subject by saying he was passing my comments on to Dr Hillary Walker at the DofH. I have since informed Sir W that I have had no reply from him (or her) so far.

Sylvia