BBC News Website 15.07.05

Pupils in Warwickshire are to hold another demonstration against a mobile phone mast which has been erected next to their school.

Children from St Edward's Primary School in Coleshill are to refuse to go to lessons for the third consecutive Friday.

Their parents are claiming that emissions from the mast are making the children ill.

O2 which owns the mast said it is meeting government safety guidelines.

Omega see under: "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk" http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

Dr Edmund Stoiber
State Chancelry
PO Box 220011
80535 Munich

Urgent suspicions of serious health damage from pulsed high frequency electromagnetic fields (mobile phone base stations, DECT phones, W-LAN, Bluetooth etc.) at levels below exposure guidelines.

Dear Prime Minister,

Allow me to represent many doctors personally to you.

For eight months doctors in Oberfranken and another places have been making extremely worrying observations of patients, who live in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations. After initial suspicions at locations in Forchheim, Hirschaid, Walsdorf, Memmelsdorf and Bamberg survey measurements were made of 356 such residents in 40 locations, all in Oberfranken. Meanwhile 64 Hofer doctors, 30 Lichtenfelser, 61 Coburger, 20 from Bayreuth and countrywide, added their names to the Bamberger appeal.

The result all these medical findings is as follows.

Many people have become ill with a characteristic combination of symptoms, which is new to us as doctors, at exposure levels far below the guideline limits, which apply only to thermal effects. Residents in the vicinity of masts have one or more of the following symptoms:

Sleep disturbance, tiredness, headache, restlessness, lethargy, irritability, inability to concentrate, forgetfulness, trouble finding words, depressive tendency, noises in the ears, impaired hearing, dizziness, nosebleeds, visual disturbances, frequent infections, sinusitis, joint and muscle pains, feeling deaf, palpitations, increased blood pressure, hormone disturbances, gaining weight, hair loss, nocturnal sweating, nausea.

The following statements strengthened our suspicions:

* Frequently, many residents become sick with these symptoms at the same time, when living near a base station
(e.g. Schweinfurt: Eselshöhe, in Kulmbach: Senioren-Wohnanlage Mainpark, in Hof: Kösseinestraße, in Forchheim: Ortsteil Burk).
* Many patients have reported rapid recovery when removed from exposure (by temporary relocation, removal of the source, screening, disconnection).
* After relocation, doctors have proven during re-examination of the patients, among other things, that blood pressure, heart rhythm, hormone disturbances, visual disturbances, neurological symptoms, and blood profile have returned to normal.
* Many doctors’ families have in the course of the last months removed their DECT phones and were thereafter free among other things from headache, concentration disturbances, dizziness, restlessness, tinnitus, and sleep disturbance.

We therefore requested the responsible authorities (Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety, members of the Radiation Protection Commission and the WHO) to organise local health surveys. Despite the serious, medical concern, all the authorities have refused to investigate the (to some degree) intolerable living conditions of those living locally.

Not one official health survey has been made at any base station in Germany! The SSK and the BfS have thus no level of knowledge concerning the long-term effects on resident living in the vicinity. From a medical viewpoint is this unacceptable.

I therefore turn to you to request your assistance for our patients who have no other recourse. We doctors from Oberfranken are ready to help. We urge you to immediately arrange local health surveys among people in the vicinity of base stations, at locations in Bavaria. Our concern is not that there are 'unfortunate individual cases', but that there is a medical disaster spreading to all parts of the population! To investigate our concerns, it must also be possible to switch transmitters off. From a medical viewpoint, we are seeing an emergency situation, which requires rapid action by all political means.

I implore you to take action to avoid health damage among many children, young people and adults.

Faithfully

Dr. Cornelia Waldmann Selsam
Karl-May-Str.48
96049 Bamberg
Tel: 0951-12300 Fax:0951-2972506
Mail: peter.selsam @t online.de

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From Karen Barratt

See below my press release from a couple of days ago which will give you a flavour of how things were. The mast was finally erected yesterday (see photo of the process).
http://www.omega-news.info/mast_up_day_2_3_024.jpg

So after four and half years of resistence we are now in the same boat as many of our fellow campaigners. I feel rather like the Queen Mother when the palace took a hit in the blitz and she said she could "look Eastenders in the face." The mast isn't operational yet and I'm planning to do a 24 hour vigil on the site next week - the fifth and final one. I want to see how much support is left in the community for a second phase - to find a way of getting the thing removed. I'm feeling pessimistic at the moment. Some of the residents are more worried about posters than the mast but we'll see.

If you can visit the vigil at ANY TIME during the day or night please do. If you live too far away just send a message of support.

I'll be on the site at the top of Byron Avenue, Winchester Hants SO22 5AT from

NOON WEDNESDAY 20 JULY until NOON THURSDAY 21 JULY.

Thanks



Press release 12 July 2005

POLICE TURN OUT IN FORCE IN WINCHESTER

The long-running Byron Avenue phone mast reached a dramatic climax yesterday when contractors arrived to erect the 12-metre mast in the leafy Winchester cul-de-sac. Residents, who have resisted telecom Orange for four and a half years, were shocked when heavy vehicles roared up the road accompanied by police. “At one point there were twelve police officers,” said campaigner Karen Barratt. “They even had a minibus parked outside the school.” Residents say that such a heavy presence, presumably to protect Orange contractors against elderly residents and primary school children, was extraordinary given the demands being made on the force in the wake of the London bombings.

Campaigners, who sat on the site while a security fence was erected eventually left after being threatened with arrest. “I feel sorry for the police in this situation,” said Karen Barratt. “They would prefer to be getting on with their proper job of catching criminals but they have to follow orders from higher up. These days policy is more in favour of looking after big companies than protecting communities.”

Orange took the decision to go ahead after Hampshire County Council refused to extinguish highway rights, which would have allowed residents to take control of the tiny patch of land they have looked after for over thirty years. “We were appalled by HCC’s decision,” said Caroline St. Leger Davey. “They also promised to tell us the date when the mast erection would take place but did not do so. In fact they didn’t notify anyone - not even the school. It’s been a terrible shock to us all.”

The mast erection is likely to be completed today but given the twists and turns in the Byron Avenue saga so far, nobody is betting on this being the end of the story. Watch this space.

Oldham Evening Chronicle

FEARFUL residents are mounting a campaign against plans for a large phone mast close to their homes in Shaw.

They are alarmed at Vodafone’s application to replace an existing mast with a 21m-high (68.89ft) lattice-type structure at W Felton Ltd on the Trent Industrial Estate, off Duchess Street.

Wren’s Nest Residents’ Association has now launched a petition urging decision-makers at Oldham Council to refuse permission.

Campaign co-ordinator Andy Sutherland said: “This mast would tower above anything else in the local area and be a blot on the landscape.

“We are very angry and worried about the dangers, whether it is perceived or real, and this has already caused a considerable amount of anxiety and stress.”


Omega the dangers are real. See under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

The three main concerns of residents are the visual and environmental impact, interference with household electrical equipment and dangers to health.

They say the mast would be 6m (6.56yd) taller than the original mast, only 20m (21.87yd) from the nearest homes and would be an unsightly structure with 12 antennas and one microwave dish protruding.

It is even claimed that house prices could plummet by 20 to 30 per cent.

The protesters also state that gaps in knowledge about the potential health impacts of exposure to radiation warrant a precautionary app-roach to the siting of masts.

They say children are particularly vulnerable and warn that Rushcroft Primary School and Dunwood Park are only about 50m (54.68yd) from the proposed site.

An application for a smaller mast in the vicinity was turned down only two years ago, opponents point out.

The parish-council’s planning committee has recommended the scheme for approval and that it is used for mast sharing with other mobile-phone companies.

Vodafone said it had received a request from another operator, O2, to share the site.

This meant the height of the structure had to be increased from 15m (16.4yd) to 21m (22.96yd) to accommodate all the antennas without interference.

Date Published: Wednesday 13 July 2005

Helston Packet

An O2 spokesman was blasted during a public drop-in clinic called by the company to discuss a Tetra mast.

Mawnan resident Ann Brocklehurst interrupted Peter Sitch, from telecommunications company O2 Airware, during an interview with a television crew to declare: "Wait until you drop dead".

She also stood behind him, pointed at him and chanted the Lord's Prayer. She said: "He's so rude. He's causing so many health problems we don't even know about. I am very, very upset about it, that's why I'm here. But Sitch doesn't care. He's an obnoxious character."

Mr Sitch responded by saying: "It's not for me to comment about people's balance, is it?"

The meeting, at Constantine parish hall, was called by O2 Airwave in an attempt to allay the concerns of the public, with many fearing a perceived health risk from the police radio mast. Residents have also expressed doubts over its size and appearance in an Area of Outstanding Beauty.

Two police officers were also there to put forward their views and try to convey to people the benefits the mast would bring.

Chief Inspector Jon Wotton, from the west Cornwall management team, said: "We're not here for O2, we're here to say what the benefits of the system are. The community will benefit from having a new radio system."

He added that Constantine and Zennor were the only two areas in the British Isles not using the system.

He was jointed by Inspector Mark Bolt, from Helston police station, who said: "This is my community, I'm directly responsible for it.

"I've come to offer them support and explain to them the benefits of the system."

However, some residents were unhappy about the way the drop-in clinic was being conducted.

Carmel Hannon said: "I went in, stood in the middle of the room and looked around and I was totally ignored by a group of suited gentleman - so I came out again." Others even refused to go in to the meeting, preferring to show their concerns from outside.

Richard Smith, from Mawnan Smith, said: "Why should I go in there and give them ammunition for their appeal? "Frankly I just find this exercise impertinent - it's an insult to our intelligence. Why ask us to air our concerns when it's a fait accompli?"

Derbyshire Evening Telegraph

BY DAVID WALSH

09:30 - 13 July 2005

Another two mobile phone masts are planned for Mickleover - including one which would be within a stone's throw of a school.

The area currently has six masts and there were already plans for two more to be built. If the latest plans go ahead, and the other planned masts are built, then the area will have a total of 10 masts.

Vodafone wants to build a 12-metre mast at the junction of Chestnut Avenue and Devonshire Drive - just along the road from Ravensdale Infant and Junior schools.

It has put forward the plans through Pride Park firm Waldon Telecom.

The mobile phone operator is carrying out an informal consultation with Derby City Council's planners.

Planning permission is not required because the mast is no more than 15 metres high, but Vodafone will need to liaise with the council about the precise siting and design of the mast.

In addition, T-Mobile has put forward a planning application to South Derbyshire District Council to build a 25-metre mast on the edge of the city boundary, near to Ladybank Road. If given permission the mast would dwarf the existing structures in the area, which measure from 10 metres to 15 metres tall.

Dave Cooper, head teacher at Ravensdale Junior School , said: "This mast would be 100 metres from the infant school and 150 metres from the junior school.

"We've got 500 children on the site and I feel this mast shouldn't be near a school. The evidence just isn't there that it's completely safe."

Louise Neville, of Partridge Way , Mickleover, has a daughter, Bethany (10), who attends the school. She said: "I'm very concerned about the plans. To have the mast so close to two schools is totally unreasonable."

Vodafone already has two masts in the area - one on the University of Derby campus in Chevin Road and a second in Station Road . There are also Orange and O2 masts on the university campus.

However, spokeswoman Jane Frapwell said another was necessary to improve coverage.

The plans for the T-mobile mast will be considered by South Derbyshire District Council's development control committee next month.

The district council confirmed it had received five letters of objection, while residents said a petition containing over 100 names had also been sent.

Pamela McCahey, of Howden Close, Mickleover, said: "There's a very strong feeling among residents that we're opposed to this mast.

"We feel its range would go across Mickleover Primary School, in Vicarage Road, and a lot of houses in the Ladybank Road area."

Mickleover is a popular area for masts because of its height above sea level - 102.6m at Kipling Drive.

Two more masts are expected to be built in the area in the future. Orange has confirmed that work will commence on a 15-metre mast at The Hollow, Mickleover within the next few months, while O2 has revealed it still plans to build a 12-metre mast close to the existing Orange and Three masts in Uttoxeter Road.

Bath Chronicle

11:00 - 13 July 2005

A Residents' campaign to stop a mobile phone mast being erected in the heart of their community has scored a minor victory. Councillors last night delayed a decision on whether to allow phone company Hutchinson 3G to site the mast above the Smile shop on Bear Flat.

Members of Bath and North East Somerset Council's Bath south local committee argued that inadequate research had been done into whether the mast could be located elsewhere, and said more time should be spent examining whether Hutchinson could share the same site as a rival phone company.

Although protesters were relieved that a decision on the application had been deferred, they said after the meeting that they were braced to continue their battle.

The campaigners claim that Hutchinson's proposed mast would be too close to homes.

They celebrated earlier this year when an application for the same site by phone company O2 was withdrawn when the company agreed to work on a plan for a mast site in nearby Alexandra Park.

Within months Hutchinson 3G had submitted its application for the same Smile site on Wellsway.

Last night, it was Hutchinson's scheme that came in for scrutiny.

Cllr David Bellotti (Lib Dem, Lyncombe) criticised the council's officers for the report they had provided for councillors.

He said it failed to examine whether Hutchinson could share a mast with O2, and he criticised the council's attempts at public consultation.

He said the decision on the mast should be deferred until all options had been researched.

Cllr Marian McNeir (Lib Dem, Lyncombe) praised the opponents of the scheme. She said: "If we cannot listen to our residents on this, we would not be respecting them in the way that we should.

"There is the possibility of mast-sharing."

Geoff Webber, the area development control manager for B &NES, defended the officers involved in the report and told councillors they were being asked to judge the 3G application solely on its own merits.

Councillors voted to defer a decision on the application for a maximum of three months.

Protester Maureen Armstrong-James, who spoke against the application, said after the meeting: "I don't like the idea of putting a mast in Alexandra Park. I think masts should go on the outskirts of the city."

She said she had polled more than 1,000 people in the Bear Flat area, and 98 per cent of them had objected to the scheme.

Fellow campaigner Margaret Stewart said: "Those of us who need to be are at these meetings but when the time is right we'll be able to marshal thousands to stand up and object to this development.

"We won't be pushed about."

Gloucester Citizen

10:30 - 13 July 2005

Controversial plans to build a mobile phone mast in Stroud town centre have been withdrawn.

But anti-mast campaigners cannot break out the champagne just yet as phone company Vodafone could still propose a new site in the area. The application for the 12m high mast in Merrywalks, had caused controversy as the proposed site was close to two schools and bus stops in the town.

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said: "We are trying to agree an alternative location which will be nearer to the (old police station) roundabout.

"The reason we withdrew was because there were plans, of which we were unaware, for additional bus stops at that point."

Anti-antennae campaigner Lynne Edmunds is spokeswoman for the pressure group Mast Sanity.

She has been one of the main objectors to the proposal and warned the campaign against the phone companies was by no means over.

"This is just the beginning of what communities are facing with five separate companies all trying to roll out new networks of 3G," she said.

She said each fresh proposal needed to be looked at.

"People see each application as a new separate situation," she said. "This is all part of this 3G blast."

Miss Edmunds recently objected to the mast over concerns the radiation given off by the mast might harm the health of pupils at the nearby St Rose's Special School and Rosary Primary School as well as bus passengers.

Shortly afterwards head teacher of The Rosary, Maria Lockey said she would also be against the siting of a mast so near to her classrooms.

She said she had intended to send a written protest to the Stroud District Council local planning authority.

"Any potential health hazards could be a risk to schoolchildren," she said.

"I am also concerned about the siting of the mast near bus stops where hundreds of children wait each day for buses."

Businesswoman Nicky Baldwin runs a spinal rehabilitation centre at the Old Convent, which overlooks Merrywalks.

She said she had been concerned about the mast near her work.

"I am not too enthralled about having it (the mast) really. I am concerned about my health," she said.

A spokeswoman for the council confirmed Vodafone had withdrawn their Merrywalks application.

They were still looking to lodge a proposal in the immediate area, she said.

A friend of mine is a long term conspiracy researcher (does anyone know of Tim Rifats research - foremost microwave researcher in Europe) and has read stuff about people speaking abnormally loud on mobiles because of the effects on the brain.

Rifat quoted studies at London xoo (sorry last letter of the alphabet is out on my comp) in the 1950s which measured the brain frequencies of dominant and submissive chimps so these could be replicated in human beings for political manipulation. He believes the frequencies used by mobiles are deliberately chosen to produce states of apathy and aggression in the populace and can even be used to give simple commands. During the 80s inner city areas were bathed in ELF radiation to produce general apathy in the population.

Maybe this is why we're seeing so many violent and disturbed children now?

Gary

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Dear Gary.

We are not just seeing violent and disturbed children, but also violent disturbed adults, and these adults are supposed to be bringing the new generation, the children up, and teaching them how to behave so that there is a place for ALL of us.

I have never heard of Tim Rifats, but his logic is a simple logic.

There has ALWAYS been a rule, where the parents were the Older, and they had an obligation to teach their children how to behave in a society where we all had to exist.

This has now been removed.

The children have stopped being a cherished future generation, who would inherit the earth, and instead they are now a non-cherished
liability for parents too busy with their own lives and carriers to be bothered with their offspring (sorry, I have just spent a time looking at the TV and I feel angry.

New born baby’s ar totally ignorant.

It Is What YOU Teach Them in the first years, and keep up that is going to make them good human beings.

And to stop ranting, Yes, I am sure it is true that EMF does such damage to both children and their parents, that I am not sure this will ever be possible to put right again.

I know what their pollution did to us, and we are absolutely very grown up (60+62), so what about our grandchildren?

Easy, they were cut off from visiting Nan and Grandpa, until they had found somewhere else to live.

I and I am sure a lot of us have noticed that, the heavyweight radiation gets put up by schools and nurseries. WHY?

Quote: They Do Not Target Children! Now do they? Even Disney is joining, as a babysitting device!

Omega see "Cell Phones and Children: Disney targets kids for mobile phone service" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/821682/

And yes, I think you are right.

It is a conspiracy, there is a lot of cash that has changed hands to some people, but us the consumers, citizens, voters do not want it for any price (sorry, some do, if the mast is by My house, and not theirs).

Come to think of it: Where did all these Billions go to? Pet-project Iraq maybe? (remember to ask Mr. Brown, who is at the till).

Regards.

Agnes .

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by Jolene Hill

THE long campaign for health fears to become a valid objection against mobile phone masts has stepped up a gear.

Outraged residents have protested against masts of different sizes, many not requiring planning permission, springing up all over the borough.

Radiation detectors have shown high levels in homes close to masts and residents believe the waves are linked to ill-health.

Now Bromley Council is asking the Government for health issues to be considered when looking at planning permission for masts.

It also wants developers to apply for planning permission for all masts, not just the larger ones.

But some residents believe the council's action is too little, too late.

They say back in 2000 the independent Stewart Committee recommended tighter planning laws as a precaution because the effects of masts on health were still unknown.

The committee also said in January this year health risks could not be ruled out because not enough research has been carried out.

Angela Shields, 37, moved to her home on Footbury Hill Road, Orpington, near the BT telephone exchange on Chislehurst Road, in 2000.

When a mast went up in February, Mrs Shields and her family experienced nose-bleeds, headaches and insomnia until they arranged their furniture away from the signal.

She said: "The masts are breeding like flies and so many people from Bromley have bad health effects but no-one has listened."

There is currently no scientific evidence to prove the link and laws do not allow councils to consider health concerns.

Councillor Chris Maines proposed the idea of asking the Government to change the regulations over objections.

He said: "This would allow us to come down on the side of health concerns. It would be up to the developer to prove masts are safe."

Deputy council leader Councillor Graham Arthur said: "We are calling on the Government to give us the powers so people can have their say on all masts and antennae."