T Mobile seem to be running up against more opposition in Brighton & Hove than they bargained for. Fortunately we have six Green Councillors who after many months of me shovelling information their way put together a petition to central Gov't demanding major changes in planning law which was passed by 75% of the Council (with the Chair and Deputy chair of the Planning Committee, unbelievably voting against).

The Greens are the only Councillors who ever respond - and helpfully - to the messages I send out to local Councillors about local mast issues, but just today I learned that groups are springing up all over Brighton & Hove against T Mobiles 3G masts planned for their neighbourhoods. I now know of at least five community action groups formed to fight five of the 16 masts proposed by T Mobile as the first stage of their 3G rollout. And some of the Green Councillors are right down there on the ground with them.

In fact Marconi couldn't have bargained for the reception they got from Green Councillor Bill Randall when they sent a slimy little missive a few months ago to all Brighton Councillors suggesting that "Marconi hopes to be able to work closely and with mutual benefit with Brighton and Hove Councillors in the first stage of its rollout plans for 3G" etc. You get the idea. Councillor Randall didn't respond, kept a close eye on them, then sent the first of a series of letters back to Marconi rejecting their advances and attacking them for every wrong move they had made up to that point - and there were many. He then tore them to shreds in the speech he gave to the Council introducing his Motion.

So God bless Bill. We need more like him - people who are not prepared to put up with ANY shit from people who would trample all over human rights. And now as the anti mast movement gathers momentum in Brighton, he's not the only Green Councillor right there with em.

Hurrah!
Gary

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Hi Sandi

Actually I found out yesterday there are two more anti T Mobile 3G mast groups in Brighton/Hove making 7. 16 masts are planned in their first stage...

At work yesterday the Head of the school I clean told me someone had been round and got all the teachers to sign a petition against one of these masts just 50 metres away from the school. I took the opportunity to tell her as much as I could about 3G and the situation in Brighton and for once she listened.

I've been appalled at the fact that she's a physics teacher but lets all the kids use mobiles all day and believes every word the Gov't farts about "No dangers" etc Hence you get junk food in the kitchen, drinks full of Aspartame ("The Gov't would never allow a harmful amount to go into drinks")

Yeah, lost cause.

Then today I found a notice at work saying:

IMPORTANT NOTICE

April 28th 2005

Dear Parents

All camera/video mobile phones are banned from school with immediate effect. If ....suspended from school until further notice. etc etc

Thank you
(Heads name)

She referred them to the internet BBC mobile phone issues in school site.

So although she had clearly checked out mobile phones due to the conversation I had with her, she has only - as her hubby confirmed - banned a certain type (3G - fortunately the worst offenders) and not because of health concerns but because of privacy and pornography issues.

Well it's something but personally I'd rather see kids giggling over porno mags than going round using GSM phones all day and getting serious brain damage in a few years time.

Tragic too the ignorance of physics teachers.

By the way have copied and distributed hundreds of your leaflet.

Gary

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Gary, I am so pleased to hear that Brighton is resisting! This is what I hoped for.

An advice line caller gave me Bill Randall's phone number months ago and I spoke to him on mast issues and sent an info pack and other information. He has certainly done his homework and come up trumps for you all! If all the little groups united you could get a decent result down there with your council. People power does work.

Sandi

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/257.html


I was sent this. It makes scary but interesting reading.

Sandi

From Karen

FYI

Subject: Farnham Phone Mast Protest TODAY

THE BOURNE VILLAGE INFANT SCHOOL - ORANGE MAST @ 50m (Farnham, Surrey)

The School and local community successfully opposed a BTCellnet/ O2 Mast on the same site over a year long Campaign 2001/2 (Protests, petitions, media coverage)To their credit O2 acknowledged the sensitivity of this site ( ie 200 x 4-7yr olds ) and withdrew.

ORANGE now intend to place a Mast on exactly the same site. They are aware of proximity to school and of previous campaign, but intend to proceed regardless.

UNTIL SAFETY FROM RADIATION CAN BE PROVEN OUR CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE USED AS EXPERIMENTAL GUINEA PIGS.

Government Guidelines recommend that Masts should not be sited near Schools.*

The local community is in shock, but actively determined to protect yet again the ONLY School in our Village.

Tomorrow, Tues. 26th April Orange are holding a "Public Consultation" @ The Bush Hotel, Farnham. School children, in uniform, and those from nearby Nurseries will gather "en masse" to protest @ 4PM.

We will hand over a letter requesting that Orange consult with the school (which they have NOT done) to comply with PPG8, and their own Code of Commitment.

NB Orange are as yet unaware of this protest. Please help us publicise this event.Your support was invaluable last time.

Further Information please contact : Niki Hearnshaw (Campaign
Co-ordinator)- 01252 737618

Neville Carter (Technical Consultant) - 01252 724110

Bourne Infant School (Head Teacher, Karin Cooper ) - 01252 716398

Orange HO - 0870 3768888

*ODPM 'O2. Code of Best Practice./ Stewart Report 'O1.

A LEUKAEMIA sufferer is among a group of residents fighting plans for a 40-ft mobile phone mast.

Peter Wells, of Beauchamps Gardens, Chaseside, Bournemouth fears radiation from the proposed 3G mast could affect his health and is angry at the way the plans have been publicised.

And fellow residents on the Castledene estate have joined him in opposing the mast, claiming its location next to the grade two listed building Littledown House is unsuitable.

Mr Wells, 56, said: "I live no more than 50 yards from the site and the council didn't even bother to notify us. My leukaemia is in a stable condition now but I'm very worried that the stress of this application, combined with the effects of the mast, could kick-start it.

"I don't have a problem with them needing to put this mast somewhere, but this is the wrong place."

And Sandy Ward, of Hares Green, vowed: "I'll lie down on the ground before they put this post in place.

"The bare minimum of notification has gone up and the plans don't even show the housing estate.

"With a mast that high we should all have had letters through our doors."

Bournemouth council said it fulfilled its statutory obligation by putting notices up and the planning application would be considered in due course.

And Mike Dobson, community affairs manager for Hutchison 3G, said the company had written to local ward councillors to inform them of its planning application and had also notified Portchester and Avonbourne Schools.

Hutchison 3G has its own phone network and the mast is needed to enable the use of video mobile phones.

"From a health and safety point of view, there are very strict guidelines that we have to adhere to, set down by the International Commission of Non-Ionising Radiation Protection," he said.

"In reality the radio frequency energy levels will be thousands of times below those guidelines at ground level.

"We would like to reassure the local community that they have nothing to fear."

http://www.thisisbournemouth.co.uk/dorset/bournemouth/news/BOURN_NEWS_NEWS7.html



SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY - Cluster in Spain 2000-2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

A plan to erect a mobile phone mast within the grounds of a Shropshire football club has been rejected.

Telecommunications company O2 wanted to move the existing floodlight column at the Crown Meadow ground in Bridgnorth and replace it with a mast.

The proposals met with opposition from many local people, including governors of the nearby St John's Primary School.

Bridgnorth District Council also rejected a plan by Vodafone to put up a mast on Mill Street, close to the A442.

Date published: Saturday 23 April 2005

Battle lines have been drawn on two fronts by protestors opposing mobile phone masts in Abingdon, claiming they are a health risk and can depress property prices.

A residents' group, celebrating after blocking one mast, is now focusing its attention on removing an existing structure, while another alliance is opposing plans for a mast on the Oxford Road roundabout.

People living in Galley Fields, off Radley Road , have won their campaign to block a 15-metre mast going up near their homes, but still want an existing mast taken down.

The Galley Fields Residents' Association objected to a new O2 phone mast on land at Allens Motors at the Radley Road industrial estate.

The Vale of White Horse District Council has vetoed the mast on the grounds that it would have been an eyesore and too close to homes.

The decision was welcomed by residents' association chairman Ernie Wright.

He said: "We are delighted that the council has agreed with our concerns. To have allowed another mast not far from the existing one would have been too much and could have been harmful.

"Now we have won this battle we plan to continue our fight to get the existing one removed. It's been up for seven years, towering over nearby homes."

Mike Gilbert, the district council's development control manager, said: "When the mast was put up it did not need planning permission. Orange consulted the council but at the time we decided not to object. No decision has been taken about re-siting it but clearly the cost implications would have to be examined."

Meanwhile people living near the roundabout at the top of Oxford Road are opposing plans to build a 12-metre pole for Vodafone.

Derek Lewis, of Alexander Close, says residents are worried that radio waves emitted by the mast could be a health risk.

Mr Lewis, who has a two-year-old-son, said: "I have looked at many conflicting reports and, until this is proved for sure, it would make sense to limit the distance from a residential area that they can be erected."

Mr Lewis added: "Estate agents also tell me that the proximity of masts has a bad effect on property prices."

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/news/NEWS2.html

PROTESTERS are celebrating a first victory in their battle against a mobile phone mast being put up close to their homes.

Councillors unanimously voted to oppose Hutchison 3G's plan to erect a 12m high mast near the Hazel Stubb roundabout on Haverhill by-pass.

More than 400 people have already signed a petition opposing the scheme and banner-waving protesters greeted members of St Edmundsbury Borough Council's development control committee as they carried out a site inspection on Thursday.

Although the committee does not have the power to refuse the application, members agreed unanimously to object to it when they returned to council offices to discuss the matter.

Planning officers will now negotiate with Hutchison 3G to try and find an alternative site.

Protester Rob Sanderson said: "We are delighted. It was a very sensible decision because if this application was approved it would open the floodgates and no housing estate would be safe."

Councillors objected to the mast as being close to a busy roundabout and listed buildings, visually intrusive, and detracting from the amenity of the countryside.

Coun Jeremy Farthing said he had received more objections to this plan than anything else in seven years as a councillor. He described it as "presumptuous, premature and arrogant" for 3G to seek to put up the mast.

See below a section from http://www.emf-solutions.org.uk

Sleeping near Mobile Phone Base stations accelerates Cancer according to many experts in Microwave Radiation. The reason is because base stations emit 'pulses' which we cannot see or hear but our brain recognizes as a strong form of light. Now lets look at what the Medical experts say about long term exposure to light at Night:

The night time hormone melatonin puts breast cancer cells to sleep. It also slows breast cancer growth by 70%. David E. Blask, MD, PhD, of Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., reported the findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Breast cancers get revved up by a kind of dietary fat called linoleic acid. Melatonin interacts with linoleic acid, so he gave melatonin to mice implanted with human breast cancers. "This breast cancer rev-up mechanism gets revved down by melatonin" Blask said at a news conference. "Nighttime melatonin is a relevant anti-cancer signal to human breast cancers. Ninety percent of human breast cancers have specific receptors for this signal".

The hormone seeps from a pea-sized gland in the brain when the lights go out at night. It's the reason you get sleepy when it's dark. Blask and colleagues found that melatonin puts cancer cells to sleep, too. Blask's team exposed lab mice with human breast cancers to constant light. Tumor growth skyrocketed. "With constant light, tumors grow seven times faster and soak up incredible amounts of linoleic acid," he says. "During the day, the cancer cells are awake and linoleic acid stimulates their growth. But at night cancer cells go to sleep. When we turn on lights at night for a long time, we suppress melatonin and revert back to the daytime condition". The findings may explain why nurses who often work the night shift have high rates of breast and colon cancer.

So there we have a scientific explanation; our brains think it is daytime and don't produce melatonin; over a period of time we get to feel 'run down' and eventually cancer cells can grow.