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Controversial plans for a mobile phone mast near three schools in Preston have been approved.

Orange won an appeal to put up the 11.8m mast on land off St Vincent's Road, Fulwood, after the plan was rejected by Preston Council.

The mast will be close to Preston College, Archbishop Temple High School and Corpus Christi Catholic Sports College.

The mast will look like a lamppost and will have an equipment cabin alongside.

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13 September 2007

A MOBILE phone mast will not be erected close to two schools after the landlord of the proposed plot rejected the proposal.

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation's (LGCHF) board of management has refused permission for mobile phone company O2 to erect a 15.6m high telecommunications column with a floodlight attachment on land at the Sports Centre, Whitethorn Lane in Letchworth GC.

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GARETH EDWARDS
(gedwards @edinburghnews.com)

CAMPAIGNERS have scored a victory after a move to put a mobile phone mast on a church tower was thrown out by councillors.

City planners had recommended the mast - which was to be disguised as a flagpole - be given the go-ahead.

But the council's planning committee yesterday turned down the application, saying it would damage the character of the area.

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This Day (Lagos)

13 September 2007
Posted to the web 13 September 2007

Lagos

Of recent, fears have been expressed in Nigeria about the safety or otherwise of citing of telecoms base stations and telecoms masts in residential areas especially with reports of alleged development of cancer amongst some residents in the United Kingdom. Efem Nkanga, in this report finds out if the fears are real or imagined.

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13 September 2007

TEACHERS and governors have strongly objected to plans to build a 15-metre high phone mast just yards from their school.

People living and working in the area around the site were notified about the planning application in a letter from Uttlesford District Council (UDC) dated Monday, September 3.

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by By Tracy-Ann Carmichael

Two controversial phone masts will be erected at sites in the Burgh after councillors gave the green light.

But the move left residents who protested against the plans outraged, and they say they will fight on.

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