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Feb 18 2009 by Janine Yaqoob, Midweek Visiter

AN application to erect a telephone mast on a busy Southport road has been rejected.

Vodafone Ltd submitted the application for the 12.5m mast to be erected on the corner of Manchester Road and Zetland Street.

Councillors ruled against the plans at last Wednesday’s Planning Committee meeting at Bootle Town Hall.

Residents had submitted a 75-signature petition opposing the application.

Cllr Lord Ronnie Fearn, who endorsed the petition, commented: “I am very pleased that the application has been turned down, as are the residents.

“At last Vodafone have seen sense and realised they can not put up a phone mast where there is a conglomeration of people.

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Orange finish alternative Marlow site testing

Bucks Free Press - London, UK

In October 2008 Orange was granted permission to build a mast at the junction of ... The mobile phone operator has finished testing a series of temporary ...

http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4134929.Orange_finish_alternative_Marlow_site_testing/

dave.tanner@archant.co.uk

18 February 2009

ACCUSATIONS of double standards have been levelled at Devon County Council after a "not-on-our-roof" reaction to suggestions a mobile phone mast be installed on the Civic Centre in Barnstaple.

District councillor Des Brailey was told staff were "likely to object" to having it on the building, despite most authorities and the Government having declared the controversial radiation-emitting equipment safe.

It began when alarmed Sticklepath Hill residents alerted Cllr Brailey, after learning Vodafone had started work to erect a 44-ft mast on the roadside verge by High Wall and in front of their bedroom windows.

North Devon Council planners issued a "stop work" notice and subsequently refused permission for the scheme, designed to replace an existing mast at North Devon College before the college moved.

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8:20am Tuesday 17th February 2009

By Charlie Campbell

ANGRY parents have accused a telecoms giant of putting profits over their children's health by installing a new phone mast just yards from a school.

Critics fear the lives of youngsters at Aldersbrook Primary School, in Harpenden Road, could be put at risk when Orange builds the powerful electronic equipment at the junction of Aldersbrook Road and Dover Road.

Mum-of-four Elizabeth Canavan, of nearby Merlin Road, has three children attending the school and told the Guardian she fears for the safety of young children as the transmitter would be the fourth within 200m of classrooms.

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http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4130598.WANSTEAD__Protests_ring_out_over_phone_mast/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast

7:30am Tuesday 17th February 2009

A Hampshire MP has accused a mobile phone giant of being like a high tech Count Dracula.

The attack from Eastleigh’s Chris Huhne came after a Whitehall planning inspector’s decision to back a controversial new phone mast at Chandler’s Ford.

A year ago residents were celebrating after scoring a major victory to pull the plug on a plan by Vodafone to put the mast on a green near the busy Bournemouth Road and Leigh Road junction.

Eastleigh Council backed their campaign by kicking out the mast proposal.

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http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4130916.Anger_as_phone_giant_wins_mast_tussle_on_appeal/

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Islamabad

Using cellular phones near hospital beds and critical care medical equipment can lead to electromagnetic interference.

Critical care equipment is vulnerable to electromagnetic interference posed by new age cellular phones. It can disrupt pacemakers, switch off ventilators and cause a lot of problems, Health news reported.

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http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=162791

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This news item from Islamabad
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=162791

Relates to an old study from 2007

http://ccforum.com/content/11/5/R98
Interference by new-generation mobile phones on critical care medical equipment

Erik Jan van Lieshout1,2 email, Sabine N van der Veer3 email, Reinout Hensbroek4 email, Johanna C Korevaar5 email, Margreeth B Vroom1 email and Marcus J Schultz1,6 email Critical Care 2007, 11:R98

Conclusion

The '1 meter rule', specifying the minimum distance to keep a mobile phone from medical equipment or the bedside as proposed in the past, seems safe, although the rule does not exclude EMI by new-generation mobile phones entirely. Restrictive policies should be facilitated by offering numerous areas that are easily accessed throughout the healthcare facility where the use of mobile phones is clearly permitted.

Key messages

* Incidents of EMI caused by second-generation and third-generation mobile phones occurred in 43% of 61 critical care medical devices, of which 33% were classified as hazardous.

* The hazardous incidents varied from a total switch-off and restart of a mechanical ventilator, through complete stops without alarms in syringe pumps, to incorrect pulsing by an external pacemaker.

* The median distance of all incidents was 3 cm, with a considerable range up to 500 cm.

*The policy to keep mobile phones '1 meter' from the critical care bedside in combination with easily accessed areas of unrestricted use still seems warranted.


Of course the UK's Adam Burgess seems not to have seen any studies!

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7572/767
BMJ 2006;333:767-768 (14 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.599769.80 Editorial Use of mobile phones in hospitals

New guidelines are less restrictive but still overcautious

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Mobile phones are widely used, but their use is still restricted in certain places including petrol stations, some areas in hospitals, and aircraft. Restrictions have been justified on the grounds of public safety, but the reasons behind these restrictions are often unclear. In hospitals, patients, visitors, and staff routinely breeze through wards with their mobile phones switched on. As yet we have no evidence that this behaviour has serious consequences for patients. The lack of such evidence has encouraged the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to advise more selective restrictions on the use of mobile phones in hospitals (box).1 While welcoming this relaxation, we wonder why it has taken so long to happen and why it has the feeling of extracting a generous concession. The liberalisation sits alongside proposed new restrictions, such as a ban on the use of camera phones in patient areas. The regulations also . . . [Full text of this article]

Stuart W G Derbyshire, senior lecturer in psychology

University of Birmingham, School of Psychology, Birmingham BI5 2TT
(s.w.derbyshire@bham.ac.uk)

Adam Burgess, senior lecturer in sociology

University of Kent, School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, Canterbury CT2 7NF


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/328/7434/292
Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
By Adam Burges
2004


http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2003/12/09/invasion-of-the-entryists/
Invasion of the Entryists
Monbiot


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

By Jamie Buchan

Published: 14/02/2009

Mobile phone giant Vodafone is expected to get permission to build a mast in the centre of a north-east town, despite a raft of complaints from residents.

The firm applied to create a 50ft lattice tower, complete with three antenna and two dishes, on a site behind Bayview Motors in Broadsea Road, in Fraserburgh.

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http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1078457

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Fraserburgh mobile mast expected to get permission

stv.tv - UK Vodafone is expected to get permission to build a mobile phone mast in the centre of Fraserburgh. ... http://news.stv.tv/scotland/76019-fraserburgh-mobile-mast-expected-to-get-permission/

Published Date: 12 February 2009

By Staff reporter

RESIDENTS at Belvedere Manor are calling foul over plans to build a mobile phone mast close to their homes.

Hundreds of people have so far signed a petition against the mast plan.

Proposals have been made to place a mast on the grass verge at the junction of the Kilmore Road with the Antrim Road.

Residents of Belvedere Manor have now started a petition against the plans.

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http://www.lurganmail.co.uk/news/Mast-protest.4968898.jp

Malta Today - San Gwann, Malta

The MCA website contains readings of electro magnetic radiation taken from
411 antennas located in nearly every town and village. ...

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/02/11/t6.html

PARENTS SHARE FURY AT PHONE MAST MEETING

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald - Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, UK

... representatives and developers at a public meeting opposing the siting of a 15-metre-high mobile phone mast near Stanley Primary School in Ardrossan. ...

http://www.ardrossanherald.com/articles/1/34047



Campaigners beat Vodafone

Maghull & Aintree Star - Maghull, Merseyside, UK

LYDIATE campaigners are celebrating after winning a battle to stop a mobile phone mast being built in a residential area. The Maghull & Aintree Star can...

http://www.maghullstar.co.uk/maghull-aintree-news/maghull-aintree-news/2009/02/12/campaigners-beat-vodafone-104897-22899917/



Mast bid blasted

South Wales Evening Post - Swansea, Wales, UK

A PLAN to build a mobile phone mast near homes has been thrown out by councillors. Vodafone UK had applied to build a 13-metre mast next to the Lidl ...

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Mast-bid-blasted/article-693801-detail/article.html