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Aug 15 2008 By Neil Elkes

CITY councillors have ignored expert advice and taken a major stand against mobile phone giant Vodafone over plans to upgrade a mast on the edge of a public park.

Planning committee members were told they were powerless to stop the company increasing the size of its mast next to Pype Hayes Park, in Eachelhurst Road, Erdington.

But they decided that it was too large for a parkside location and at 6ft tall the cabinet base presents a security risk as a hiding place for “lurkers” or “muggers”.

Committee vice-chairwoman Coun Paula Smith (Lib Dem, Hall Green) said: “There is a real safety risk. These cabinets are getting larger and larger and can conceal people behind them. Someone can easily lurk there.”

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http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2008/08/15/councillors-reject-advice-to-oppose-mobile-giant-bid-97319-21541437/

LINDENHURST (WABC) -- A battle is brewing over a cell phone tower on Long Island Thursday.

The tower was put up at the corner of a park in Lindenhurst. Some residents there say they were tricked, because they thought it was a flag pole. Now, they are concerned for their children's safety.

There are more than 100,000 cell phone towers in the United States.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6327963

2:30pm Thursday 14th August 2008

By Tarik Al Rasheed »

MORE than a dozen objections have been raised to controversial plans to build a new mobile phone mast in Barnards Green.

Mobile giant O2 wants to put up a 12.5m mast with three antennas on the Six Ways Industrial Estate, on Barnards Green Road.

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http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/local/3594799.Decision_is_coming_on_phone_mast_plan/

4:55pm Tuesday 12th August 2008

By Martyn Smith

TV celebrity Jasper Carrott branded a controversial phone mast site in Kingswinford “criminal” after viewing the eyesore for himself.

The comedian called at the High Acres estate to lend his voice to a campaign calling for a water tower which is home to 18 antennae to be pulled down amid health fears.

The Birmingham based star met protestors at the foot of the tower and delivered a devastating attack on authorities, who he says allow sites to grow unchecked while collecting billions of pounds in revenue from phone companies.

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http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/local/3589405.TV_star_Jasper_slams_masts_as__criminal_/

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5:50pm Wednesday 13th August 2008

By Anna Brett

FRUSTRATED residents, who have fought “every single” application to put transmitters on a water tower, are now gearing up to oppose an appeal.

Home owners in Conies Road, Halstead, have a water tower “virtually in their back gardens”, upon which owner Anglian Water has put several transmitters.

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http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/3592107.Halstead__residents_in_fresh_battle_over_aerials_on_water_tower/



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EMR Policy Institute (EMRPI) and IBEW Oppose Alltel / Verizon Wireless (VZW) Merger on Worker Safety Grounds

Last update: 1:25 p.m. EDT Aug. 13, 2008

MARSHFIELD, VT, Aug 13, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- EMRPI has filed formal opposition at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the Alltel / VWZ merger. EMRPI's Petition to Deny asserts that FCC has not addressed the impact of long-term exposure to RF radiation (RFR) on human health as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

All mobile carriers have a non-transferable FCC license requirement to protect workers from RFR harm regardless of employment category. Unlike workers who install and repair mobile phone antennas and are required to be trained and alerted to dangerous RFR levels, third-party workers are left ignorant and defenseless in the wireless workplace. It is possible and likely that job site workers would be in a direct line with the antennas' RF beams and be exposed to RFR at levels 200 times stronger than holding a cell phone to their heads.

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By Morwenna Blake

RESIDENTS are expected to be out in force on Thursday to protest against plans for a new 40ft mobile phone mast planned for Laverstock.

Vodafone want permission to put the mast on land owned by Salisbury District Council at Cow Lane, within 100m of homes and close to both Chafyn Grove and Godolphin schools.

Tim Boughton, of nearby Bourne Avenue, has been gathering support for a campaign against the proposal and the district council has received 47 letters of objection.

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http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2423618.0.protests_over_phone_mast_plan.php

A CONTROVERSIAL mobile phone mast looks set to stay outside a school - despite a bid to have it moved to an alternative site.

Forest Heath District Council admitted that it made a slip-up which allowed phone company 02 to put up the mast in Exning Road, Newmarket, outside Newmarket College and the town's new swimming pool.

But after a public outcry, including a petition from students at the college, the council promised to work with 02 to find an alternative site.

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http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=339201