A VERY ENGLISH PROTEST OVER PHONE MAST
SUBURBAN Stratford doesn’t clash with the law very often, but this week saw residents of the leafy suburbs come out in force to fight off contractors installing a telephone mast in the town cemetery.
Campaigners who fought to stop a mobile phone mast being erected in the Evesham Road cemetery held a 12-hour protest on Monday as work began to install it.
Picnic chairs and flasks of tea were the order of the day. This was middle England fighting for the peace and tranquillity of its dead. Those who lay in the cemetery should not be disturbed, and those who live near it fear the possible health effects of having the third generation mobile phone mast so close. Those were the messages of some 100 residents who turned up to register their opposition.
Protesters faced police officers at the cemetery gates as vans brought equipment in. Eight officers, two patrol cars and a police van arrived shortly before midday. One was heard to say: “I’ve made it to 74 without being arrested, and I don’t particularly want to get arrested now.”
For the full story, see the Herald.
© Copyright Stratford Herald 2006
http://www.stratford-herald.co.uk/mainstory.php?ID=628
Campaigners who fought to stop a mobile phone mast being erected in the Evesham Road cemetery held a 12-hour protest on Monday as work began to install it.
Picnic chairs and flasks of tea were the order of the day. This was middle England fighting for the peace and tranquillity of its dead. Those who lay in the cemetery should not be disturbed, and those who live near it fear the possible health effects of having the third generation mobile phone mast so close. Those were the messages of some 100 residents who turned up to register their opposition.
Protesters faced police officers at the cemetery gates as vans brought equipment in. Eight officers, two patrol cars and a police van arrived shortly before midday. One was heard to say: “I’ve made it to 74 without being arrested, and I don’t particularly want to get arrested now.”
For the full story, see the Herald.
© Copyright Stratford Herald 2006
http://www.stratford-herald.co.uk/mainstory.php?ID=628
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