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2:30pm Thursday 31st July 2008

A LOWER Gornal councillor said he is “over the moon” after council planners refused a mobile phone mast proposed for the village.

Mobile phone company O2 had submitted plans to Dudley Council proposing to build a 12.5m pole and radio base station in the middle of the Abbey Road roundabout - just a few a hundred yards away from another mast.

Following protests from residents, businesses and councillors, the mast was refused as it would be “unduly prominent and visible within its surroundings.”

Planners also turned down the application as it would cause traffic chaos on the road when it was being installed and maintained.

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http://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/local/3561040.Joy_at__no__to_mast/

ANGRY Heanor Road residents have accused mobile phone bosses of being sneaky after a phone mast was put up opposite their homes at 5am last week.
But they also reserved some of their anger for Erewash Borough Council who they said were naive and incompetent in allowing the installation to go ahead.

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http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/Mobile-phone-bosses-and-council.4345886.jp

By Kernan Andrews

An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to grant planning permission to Meteor to retain mobile phone masts on a house in Newcastle has been hailed as a “major victory for the Newcastle community” by Labour Cllr Billy Cameron.

ABP has refused to grant planning permission to Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd for retention of three antennae and one telecommunications dish at 16 Upper Newcastle.

The mast was erected by Meteor in November 2006, but according to Cllr Cameron, this was done without planning permission. Local residents brought it to his attention in August 2007 and the Labour man recognised that legislation forbids masts being erected on private dwellings or on a residential apartment complex.

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http://www.galwayadvertiser.ie/content/index.php?aid=13185

By Kevin Doyle

Thursday July 31 2008

IS this swimming pool "Ireland's biggest phone mast"?

Around 50 mobile phone and telecommunication devices on top of a Dublin swimming pool are a "serious health risk" and "an eyesore", it was claimed today.

The sheer quantity of masts at the Coolock pool is "shocking and scary", according to Fine Gael TD Terence Flanagan.

"The pool at the Northside Shopping Centre must be the largest phone mast in the country," he said.

According to Deputy Flanagan there is widespread concern in the area about "the massive cluster of mobile phone masts".

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http://www.herald.ie/national-news/health-fears-over-phone-masts-at-pool-1444009.html

STAFF and parents at St John's School in Bromsgrove say they are appalled at plans to erect yet another three mobile phone masts nearby.

If the plans go ahead there will be a total of 19 masts on the top of the Perryfields telephone exchange in Hanover Street.

Headteacher Wendy Taylor has called on parents to object and together with chairman of the school's governors Rev Nigel Marns, will be protesting to the agents Ian Hewitt Associates.

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30 July 2008

HIGH Street traders are furious that a 10m high 'big blot on the landscape' could be put in a busy shopping area.

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09:04 - 30 July 2008

YOU reported (July 23) that a St Ives football club turned down an approach from a mobile phone company to erect a mast on one of its floodlights.

A while ago, a mobile phone company also asked All Saints' Church in Hartford if it could install a mast within its tower in exchange for a substantial annual fee.

The parochial church council consulted widely with people living in the area. Some of those consulted voiced concerns regarding health issues, although the PCC had confidence in the scientific evidence that there was no health threat. Recently, another request has been made to use the tower and the financial offer has been increased.

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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)

EDITORIAL
29 July 2008
Posted to the web 29 July 2008

Citi Fm, an Accra based radio station reported yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stopped Zain mobile phone Company from erecting a mast at Mangoase, a suburb of Sekondi, since they did not have the permit to do so.

The radio station also quoted the EPA as having ordered other mobile telephone companies who had sited their masts in the area to apply for permit.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/200807291025.html

July 29, 2008

In talking with my daughter-in-law the other day, she mentioned her pre-teen daughter's request for her own cell phone. "Everyone else has one."

Mom worries about declining social skills among young cell-phone users, witnessing teens standing side-by-side and text messaging instead of talking. In emphasis, a Dr. Phil episode a while back showcased a teenage girl who preferred hanging out with her virtual friends created on the Internet to spending time with real people.

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http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080729/OPINION/807290328