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5:28 PM

By Chris Bone

A controversial chimney is rare. But when what's coming out of it is not smoke, but possibly radiation, people pay attention.

Those people mostly include residents of Wheeler Manor Senior Housing center, 651 6th St., where various cell phone carriers have operated a wireless transmitter disguised as a 10-foot chimney for the past decade. Most seniors had no idea they even lived beneath the rooftop tower until a few months ago. Yet, the chimney has since become a lightning rod for the ongoing international debate concerning the safety of cell phones, cell phone towers and electromagnetic radiation.

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http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/252623-a-towering-debate

5:00pm Monday 12th January 2009

By Neil Skinner

Protesters opposed to the building of a mobile phone mast in a quiet country lane came face to face with construction workers this morning.

T-Mobile has permission to build an 8.5 metre antenna on a small patch of grass in Burtons Lane – won on appeal despite bitter protests from residents and councillors.

A small group of objectors, however, is refusing to admit defeat and attempted to prevent builders starting work when they arrived this morning.

The protesters, from the campaign group Chorleywood and Chalfont Against Mast Pollution, say they will thwart the project at every turn.

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http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/4041291.Mast_protesters_clash_with_builders/

12 January 2009

NEIGHBOURS are celebrating after an application to put up a mobile phone mast was rejected.

Telefonica O2 wanted to put up a mast, which it described as a “replica telegraph pole” next to the One Stop shop on the junction of Hillside Avenue with Lowestoft Road in Worlingham, near Beccles.

A number of residents wrote to Waveney District Council to oppose the application, many of whom claimed it would be an eyesore and too tall at 12.5m.

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Reuters

01/11/09

The National Safety Council, which campaigned to get U.S. states to enforce seatbelt laws, is taking on cellphones, saying on Sunday it was starting a campaign to ban all use of mobile phones while driving. Even so-called hands-free devices should be banned, because studies show they do not make it any safer to talk on the telephone while driving, the group said. … Froetscher said her group would call governors and state legislators and ask them to ban all use of cellphones while driving. She is confident the group can get states to change their laws...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

- Dr Sandrine Wittmann investigadora en cancerología en Lyon, en el Centro Léon- Bérard.

- Le Progrès: Antenas de telefonia móvil «Una catástrofe sobre la salud pública»

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/DoctorsAndEmfMedecinsEtCem.php#7

A residents protesting about the proposed phone mast on Reepham Road.

DAVID BALE

09 January 2009 17:00

Campaigners against plans for a controversial mobile phone which was to be built near homes without planning consent are celebrating today after it emerged an alternative site in the countryside had been found.

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http://tinyurl.com/99zzec

Published Date: 09 January 2009

RELIGION could be set to connect with modern-day technology when a mobile phone mast is installed in a church spire.

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http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Church-set-for-phone-mast.4859864.jp



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