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9 UK city centres are to get blanketed with wireless broadband
United Kingdom Created: 4 Jan 2006
No escape from wireless possible: good old BT payphone booths are to be fitted with WI-FI hotspot transmitters.

Nine UK city centres are to get blanket wireless broadband coverage as part of a deal between Wi-Fi operator The Cloud and telecoms giant BT.
About 500 BT payphones in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Oxford, Cambridge and Liverpool, as well as in the London Boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea, Camden and Islington, are to be fitted with discrete WiFi boxes to create a "cloud" of coverage.

As part of the deal, both The Cloud and BT will share the revenue generated by these hotspots.
At the moment, The Cloud's Wi-Fi kit is installed in places such as pubs, coffee shops and train stations, but this is the first time it has attempted to bring wireless broadband to urban areas on such a scale.
The Cloud's network will be available immediately to punters who use BT Openzone, O2, SkypeZones and Nintendo Wi-Fi.
The Cloud's chief exec, George Polk, said: "In 2004, we built the largest hotspot network in Europe, but this is the first time anyone has brought wireless internet access to the UK public on this scale.
"As the only large-scale neutral operator in the UK, we are the only partner with the technical and financial resources to build and operate a reliable network."
The Cloud - which has some 6,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK, Sweden and Germany - also said today that it is keen to hook up with local councils to expand its network still further.
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Source: The Register, 3. Jan 2006

VILLAGERS UNHAPPY WITH MAST PROPOSALS, but this is the usual Xmas present to residents from the Telco Mafia
United Kingdom Created: 31 Dec 2005
VILLAGERS UNHAPPY WITH MAST PROPOSALS


THE FESTIVE season has been ruined for Wadhurst residents who claim plans for an "ugly" mobile phone mast were deliberately sneaked through the back door over Christmas.

Outraged villagers started a massive leafleting campaign and turned out in their droves on a bitter Wednesday morning this week to demonstrate against the 33ft O2 mast, which would be sited at Durgate's former Chrome Tech building.

They claimed it would be a dangerous eyesore.

Dismayed mother-of-two, Anna Godden, canvassed more than 100 homeowners in her effort to reverse the plans, which she said could drive her family out of the village.

The 35-year-old argued that the mast might have a devastating affect on health, especially as there are three schools within 400 metres of the site.

The period during which residents could complain about the mast originally finished yesterday, in the middle of the festive period.

Residents blamed O2 for choosing this time of year to apply when many people were on holiday or busy with Christmas plans.

Mrs Godden said: "It is outrageous and extremely worrying, we have not had time to put the issues forward. It has ruined our Christmas."

Since the demonstration this week, Wealden District Council decided to extend the consultation period until Wednesday.

A district council spokeswoman said: "We recognise these types of applications can be sensitive."

But residents also blasted a letter from the district council sent out earlier this month to inform villagers about the plans, claiming many people had been confused by its contents.

The letter, dated December 6, said a flagpole could be erected at the site and later added that there would be three 2G antennas placed inside it - but the words mobile phone mast were never used.

Mrs Godden: "Most people just thought a flagpole would be nice because there would be a flag flying when you came into the village, it was completely misleading.

"The mast will look awful in Wadhurst, which is a beautiful village and Durgates is a very historic part of the village.

"It's all quite sad and very personal as it will probably mean that we will move. I am not going to bring my children up in the shadow of one of these things."

Mayfield Road resident Sara Rice, 35, also hit the campaign trail following O2's application.

The mother-of-two said: "This application at Christmas, when people are extremely preoccupied, seems to be a deliberate ploy to sneak it through.

"As usual this smacks of everyone wanting to make money over the consideration of the local community. It would be a total eyesore."

Mrs Rice added that apart from the three schools, the area was densely populated.

Although there is no proof that mobile masts cause ill health, the government commissioned Stewart Report in 2000 recommended that district councils took a precautionary approach when siting masts close to children, because youngsters absorb proportionally more radiation than adults.

Mrs Rice added: "I fear for this community. People have got to make a stand and think about children's health."

But one fellow resident Charles Coyne, 68, said: "Not all the people are opposed to the mast. Wadhurst has a number of areas of very bad reception. If people have mobiles then they need the masts to support them."

O2 spokesman James Stevenson said the firm had already received 30 responses from residents during the consultation period, which he said proved that there had been plenty of time to respond.

He added: "It was the district council's own timing when it came to the consultation period and we cannot see any problem with the way the application has been handled."

Kent and Sussex Courier
30 December 2005
By Euan Youdale
sussex.reporters@courier.co.uk
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Source: By Euan Youdale. sussex.reporters@courier.co.uk. Kent and Sussex Courier. 30 December 2005

New bill to address health concerns over telecommunications masts through planning control
United Kingdom Created: 29 Dec 2005
Mobile Phone/Mast Radiation, November 2005

New bill to address health concerns over telecommunications masts through planning control
The Telecommunications Masts (Planning Control) Bill has been published and a provisional date for the second reading has been set for 24 February 2006.
The Bill introduces various measures that acknowledge that there is at least concern over the potential effects of telecommunications masts and equipment
in relation to schools and medical facilities. These measures will impose particular requirements on an operator applying for planning permission for telecommunications equipment, and will restrict the rights that operators have to continue to use Telecommunications Masts (Planning Control) Bill
The Telecommunications Masts (Planning Control) Bill, as ordered to be printed by the House of Commons on 22 June 2005.
This item is available in pdf format only and may take some time to download.
URL: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/026/2006026.pdf
While we welcome the new Bill, the industry should not be given the power to self regulate.
We need a team of independent experts who can monitor mobile phone mast equipment, check exposure levels and intensity.
The mobile phone industry should not be allowed to give out “The precautionary principle statement” the public should be allowed to down load information
from Independent information sites such as the EM – Radiation Research Trust and other campaign/support groups should be represented along with
statements from the Health Protection Agency.

Reporter Nic Flemings article in the Telegraph 4/11/2005 reported Dr Jill Meara of the Health Protection Agency as saying people who think they suffer from electro-sensitivity should consider keeping their distance from electrical appliances.
This was the advice from the Health Protection Agency following the Irvine report:
http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/publications/hpa_rpd_reports/index.htm

It is not good enough telling the estimated 2 million EHS people suffering to keep their distance from electric devices.
What do you do if you have a phone mast next to your home? How do you keep away from that?

What sort of society are we living in when only certain people are allowed to earn a living, consigning the rest to live out their lives in pain, enforced poverty
and isolation? By encouraging the proliferation of wireless devices, society has created an invisible under-class who are denied the opportunities available
to everyone else. ES victims are often unable to use their talents and capabilities to earn a living through denial of access to transport and places most people take for granted. With other forms of disability, society has taken the view that such a situation is unacceptable and as legislated to ensure equal access and equal opportunity.

It is offensive, dismissive and wholly unacceptable to say “keep your distance from electrical appliances” or “Get over it, take a pain killer” then you could travel
to work and be employed in our WiFi office surrounded by cordless and mobile phones”. They have no idea or any understanding of the nature of EHS, why should we be any different to the recognised EHS people in Sweden?

We want prevention and protection, we need to be treated with respect and honestly represented by the people in power we deserve nothing less.

The UK has allowed the highest output of radiation in the world. The UK recently adopted lower levels of radiation by accepting guidelines set by the
International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection ‘ICNIRP’. However, the ICNIRP standard does not offer any form of protection other than from the heating effects of microwave radiation. In other words ICNIRP only protects your body from properties of high levels of elevated temperatures.
A very substantial body of peer reviewed science clearly shows many biological changes have already happened.

The Government and Health Protection Agency Radiation Protection (HPA RPD) -formerly known as the NRPB now admit that magnetic fields at the power
levels of 0.4 microtesla doubles the risk of contracting leukaemia, whilst other European Countries have brought down their power levels to 1 or 2 microtesla,
the UK remain 100 times higher. They also admit that they have known about this for over three years. www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk/PressRelease.htm

The Government has taken over £22 billion in the selling of the licences to the mobile phone industry. They put £3.5 million back into research along with £3.5 million from the Mobile Phone Industry. Further support was announced on November, 04 for research on three additional studies for the MTHR programme.
While we welcome further research, we are concerned that it lacks true independence and would prefer the funding to go to an independent group of
scientists.

Other countries medical professions recognise that some people are sensitive to non-ionising radiation. Sweden now has a medical register of 285,000
and California 700,000. We believe these figures are underestimated, since many people are not aware that their symptoms are connected to a condition
known as electro-sensitivity or hypersensitivity (EHS) people. However, if the same figures apply to the UK this could indicate over 2.1 million people are knowingly or unknowingly affected to environmental fields (EMF).

Sir William Stewart, head of the UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA), has called for the precautionary principle to be invoked, especially where children
are concerned, as they will absorb a higher dose of radiation and for a longer period of time.

We are now seeing evidence of cancer clusters appearing in radiation from phone masts after long-term exposure, throughout the UK.
There appears to be a cancer epidemic across Europe with younger people developing this deadly disease.

The Naila Study, Germany (November 2004) – This study, conducted over 10 years was released by The Federal Agency for Radiation Protection, Germany. Medical doctors compiled case histories since 1994 – 2004, looking at heightened risk of taking ill with malignant tumours.
They discovered a threefold increase after five years exposure to microwave radiation from a mobile phone mast transmitter for up to 400 metres distance, compared to those patients living further away.

A study carried out by Ronni Wolf MD and Danny Wolf MD, Kaplan Medical Centre, Israel (April 2004) discovered a fourfold increase in cancer within 350
metres after long-term exposure to microwave radiation from a mobile phone mast and a tenfold increase specifically among women, compared to patients
living away from the mast.
Five other short-term mobile phone mast studies have also found significant health effects such as headaches, dizziness, depression, fatigue, sleep disorder, difficulty in concentration and cardiovascular problems:

Santini et al (Paris) [Pathologie Biologie (Paris)] 2002
http://www.emrnetwork.org/position/santini_hearing_march6_02.pdf

Netherlands Ministries of Economic Affairs, Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment and Health Welfare and Sport. (TNO) 2003
http://www.unizh.ch/phar/sleep/handy/tnoabstractE.htm

The Microwave Syndrome – Further Aspect of a Spanish Study – Oberfeld Gerd. Press International Conference in Kos (Greece), 2004
http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2004/Microwave-Syndrome-Oberfeld1may04.htm

Austrian scientists Dr Gerd Oberfeld send out a press release 1 May 2005 with this report:
‘A study in Austria examined radiation from a mobile phone mast at a distance of 80 metres; EEG tests of 12 electro-sensitive people proved significant
changes in the electrical currents of the brains. Volunteers for the test reported symptoms like buzzing in the head, palpitations of the heart, un-wellness,
light headedness, anxiety, breathlessness, respiratory problems, nervousness, agitation, headache, tinnitus, heat sensation and depression.

Bamberg, Germany 26-April, 2005
Dr C Waldmann-Selsam, Dr U. Säeger,
Bamberg, Oberfranken evaluated the medical complaints of 356 people who have had long-term [radiation] exposure in their homes from pulsed high
frequency magnetic fields (from mobile phone base stations, from cord-less DECT telephones, amongst others).

People suffer from one, several or many of the following symptoms:
Sleep disturbances, tiredness, disturbance in concentration, forgetfulness, problem with finding words, depressive mood, ear noises, sudden loss of hearing, hearing loss, giddiness, nose bleeds, visual disturbances, frequent infections, sinusitis, joint and limb pains, nerve and soft tissue pains, feeling of numbness, heart rhythm disturbances, increased blood pressure episodes, hormonal disturbances, night-time sweats, nausea: Open letter to German Prime Minister following from the Bamberger study http://www.tetrawatch.net/links/links.php?id=stoiberlet

If you compare the results of the “Bamberger Appell” study to “The Microwave Syndrome – Further Aspects of a Spanish Study Oberfeld & Navarro 2004”.
Both studies seem to show the same symptoms being reported at the same level of powerflux density.

Campaign groups have also been working with retired physicist Dr John Walker. Six studies now show an increase in serious illness appearing in radiation
from masts after long-term exposure. I would suggest that the threefold increase found in the Naila study up to 400m and the fourfold increase found in the
Israel study will be much higher. These figures will be diluted; they will have taken in the whole area within the 350/400m range. Dr John Walker’s research clearly shows the clusters of illness appear in radiation at exposures of around 1.5v/m, which is below the guidelines significantly permitting around
40 to 50 v/m (varying according to microwave frequency). . We believe the increase will be approx 10 to 12 per cent within concentrated areas see
examples at-: http://www.starweave.com/gallery/ This situation demands proper and full investigation

The hamlet of Wishaw is a prime example-:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/25/nmast25.xml

Five ladies developed breast cancer
One case of prostrate cancer
One bladder cancer
One lung cancer
Three cases of pre-cancer cervical cells
One motor neurone disease age 51, who also had massive tumour removed from the top of his spine.
People have developed benign lumps
Electro-sensitivity
Three cases of severe skin rashes
Many villagers suffering with sleep problems, headaches, dizziness and low immune system problems.
Horse with blood problems, continuous treatment needed by the vet.

Out of the eighteen houses surrounding the mast at up to a range of 500 metres, 77% of the tiny hamlet had health related illness believed to be as a result
of radiation from the mast. The out break of illness occurred in 2001 after seven years of exposure to the radiation emitted by the T-Mobile mast.
We are now in contact/communication with many people who are suffering from this form of radiation throughout the UK and Europe.

One other important fact is that since the Wishaw Mast vanished on November 2003, many of the residents are reporting a restored feeling of well-being.
The residents are reporting improvement in their sleep patterns and increased energy levels. The headaches and dizzy symptoms have disappeared.
We have recently seen a baby boom with three babies born in the village, one of the ladies had previously had treatment for pre-cancer cervical cells,
another had previously suffered a miscarriage. We have also seen a return of wildlife in the area and the horse has since recovered and is now strong
and healthy and no longer needs treatment. Finally a tree has blossomed for the first time in 10 years in line with the mast.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/30/nmast30.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/11/30/ixhome.html

Many animal studies have shown biological effects. The most recent study White Stork Ciconia ciconia by Alfonso Balmori Vallodolid, Spain is published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 24: 109-119, 2005.]

Behavioural observations of white stork nesting sites up to 300 metres were carried out. Productivity and behavioural observations were made.
The results have shown microwaves are interfering with reproduction which is comparable with other lab studies.

Animal studies are of great importance as biological effects cannot be put down to psychological effects.

Microwaves seem to also be interfering with human reproduction according to a recent paper by Dr Imre Fejes of the obstetrics and gynaecology department
at the University of Szeged in Hungary who concludes: “The prolonged use of cell phones may have a negative effect on sperm production and male fertility
that deteriorates both concentration and motility.” See news report-: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1159951,00.html

The effects of EMR are being felt by wildlife and the environment as a whole, Birds, bees, worms, trees are all being affected.
We need to fight for not only the future of mankind but for the future of the whole environment.

Medical Doctors are also campaigning for precaution.
Finland: Helsinki Appeal 2005
http://www.emrpolicy.org/news/headlines/helsinki_appeal_05.pdf
The Helsinki Appeal 2005 from EMF Team Finland calls on the European Parliament to act promptly for the adoption of the new safety standard in the
European Union. Physicians and researchers, feel great concern about the Precautionary Principle not being sufficiently applied to electromagnetic fields.
They want the standards recommended by ICNIRP to be rejected, because recent scientific studies report various disturbances caused by mobile phone
and other RF radiation. They also appeal to the European Community to take prompt measures for solving the refunding of the REFLEX project, which showed evidence of genotoxic effects of mobile phone radiation and should be continued:
http://www.emrpolicy.org/

The Irish Doctors' Environmental Association believes that a sub-group of the population are particularly sensitive to exposure to different types of electro-magnetic radiation. The safe levels currently advised for exposure to this non-ionising radiation are based solely on its thermal effects. However,
it is clear that this radiation also has non-thermal effects, which need to be taken into consideration when setting these safe levels.
The electro-sensitivity experienced by some people results in a variety of distressing symptoms which must also be taken into account when setting safe levels for exposure to non-ionising radiation and when planning the siting of masts and transmitters.
Catania Resolution September 13-14, 2002, 16 world leading scientists at the International Conference State of the Research on Electromagnetic Fields,
Scientific and Legal Issues, by ISPESL*, the University of Vienna, and the City of Catania, held in Catania (Italy) on September, 2002,
Thirty GPs in Liverpool
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=13656858&method=full&siteid=50061-name_page.html
It was reported in the Liverpool Echo on November 2003 “bad medicine”. A group of thirty, hospital doctors and consultants have signed a petition over
the installation of a mast which they believe is a risk to health.

Freiburger Appeal
http://www.laleva.cc/environment/freiburger_appeal.html
In October 2002 a team of German medical doctors started the Freiburger Appeal.
After seeing a dramatic rise in severe and chronic diseases, they have noted a clear temporal and spatial correlation between disease and exposure to microwave radiation. The appeal has since been signed by thousands of doctors.

My oncologist and breast cancer surgeon supplied me with a letter on 9th December 2003 stating that “we agree that there is some scientific evidence that suggests microwaves can damage cells but as yet there is no direct evidence that this is a problem in humans. We would agree that this issue needs to be raised at the highest level and funding released to support the debate and independent research to get a definitive answer.”

Furthermore, the Russians, Chinese and many other parts of Europe are rejecting ICNIRP standards and are concerned about the biological effects.
The Ministry of Chinese Health revealed that in the last ten years studies on radiation similar to that emitted by the mobile phone industry have shown a majority
of results are showing biological effects. Out of 154 studies, 88 or 57% have shown biological effects such as cancer, genetic molecular and cellular changes, electro physiology effects, behaviour changes etc. in a survey by Dr Henry Lai, Washington University, Seattle 2003. It said that the amount of evidence for biological effects and the characteristics of these are so alarming, that all efforts should be dedicated to find a way to minimize these effects.

China held an International Conference September 2005 in order to discuss and establish Asian Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ACNIRP). Research scientists have found that relatively low-level of RF (radio-frequency) radiation can lead to DNA breaks.

The REFLEX report also highlights RF-induced DNA breaks. The REFLEX project was set up to investigate the effects of low-levels of RF radiation on cellular systems; cost of approximately $3 million. The work was carried out by 12 research groups in seven European countries. Yet again it was shown
RF radiation could increase the number of DNA breaks in exposed cells and could also activate a stress response – the production of heat shock proteins.
It was clear chromosome damage could be seen in the cell exposed to mobile phone radiation over 24 hour’s exposure.
You can view an image of the cell damage on Dr Gerd Oberfeld’s Westminster Presentation on www.radiationresearch.org for the full report visit http://www.verum-foundation.de/www2004/html/pdf/euprojekte01/REFLEX_Final%20Report_Part%201.pdf


The Daily Mail reported a 25% increase in young people being hit by mouth cancer on 25/9/05. The British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) said risk factors
are normally caused by smoking and drinking, however none of these are common risks in younger people. The figure is forecast to rise sharply in the next
ten years, with people in their twenties and thirties increasingly vulnerable. (Daily Mail Report 10/11/03).

I am concerned that radiation from phones will intensify around the mouth if children or adults are wearing braces or have fillings, metal intensifies radiation.
See statement http://www.chemistryquestion.com/English/Questions/ChemistryInDailyLife/23c_microwave_metal.html .
This is an area that needs urgent attention!!!

Also enclosed recent BBC report on 50% increase in cancer in teenagers as reported byTim Eden - from Manchester's Christie hospital
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4366606.stm

I have taken this fight to Westminster, visited Director Generals in Brussels along with fellow trustee Mike Bell and scientists Dr Oberfeld and Professor Olle Johansson. I have given evidence to Birmingham and Liverpool City Council, met with Merseyside Fire Authority along side Dr Gerard Hyland and given presentations to 100’s of packed meetings throughout the UK. I even when as far as appearing earlier this year on ITV political reality TV show “vote for me” http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=2454 I entered the show on a single issue “phone masts” and came an incredible second place receiving 1000’s of votes from the general public, the highly regarded ‘Tonight with Trevor McDonald’ show followed on with a special feature on phone masts which I featured with
fellow trustee Dr Gerard Hyland -http://www.itv.com/news/tonight_878099.html

I recently met with Minister, Solicitor General QC MP Mike O’Brien on 1st October. David Davis Shadow Home Secretary met with Mike Bell, Dr Oberfeld and I earlier this year and has encouraged us to keep him up to date with any further developments. I am looking forward to meeting Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt
on 6th January 2006 with fellow trustee Brian Stein. Sadly one door remains firmly closed, the door to Tony Blair despite repeated requests for meetings from Labour MP’s Mike O’Brien and Claire Curtis Thomas.

Overall background radiation is excessive not least because we have eleven national infrastructures, four GSM operators, five 3G, one TETRA and shortly
the Network Rail GSM. No other utilities duplicate their infrastructures, yet maintain competition. Further, the mobile phone operators have gone far beyond
being a utility, into hi-tech mass marketing of entertainment and business services.

For the sake of us all especially our children, non-ionising radiation is a high priority for public health. Mobile phone networks should use the lowest possible exposure values, exclusion zones for masts from schools and homes should be brought in based on current empirical evidence.
A huge education programme should be launched providing public information, encouraging the use of mobile phones for emergency use only.

Mrs Eileen O’Connor
Trustee – EM Radiation Research Trust – www.radiationresearch.org

Founder – SCRAM (Seriously Concerned Residents Against Masts) – www.scram.uk.com
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Source: Mrs Eileen O’Connor. Trustee – EM Radiation Research Trust – www.radiationresearch.org

A residents' group's claim for £43million in compensation has been knocked down to a £150 pay-off!
United Kingdom Created: 20 Dec 2005
Group gets £150 not £43m
A residents' group's claim for £43million in compensation has been knocked down to a £150 pay-off by officials investigating a mobile phone mast.

( But count your blessings, if they had taken Vodafone to court they would have ended up with a blill for over £. 400000.- not counting our own expences of over 80000.- Like we did from taking H3G to court over making us sick, and making our home un-livable in, Info: the house is still empty and it is 2 ½ years since we had to flee head over heels).

The Linden Garden Concerned Residents Group demanded the large sum as reparation for the drop in property prices that their homes will suffer when a Vodaphone mast is erected on top of Chiswick police station.

The group challenged Hounslow Council over the way it handled the planning application for the potential mast on the High Road, claiming it tried to prevent
them from discussing the matter in an open forum.

They allege the council failed to put the issue before councillors on the Chiswick Area Committee and that officers' blunders meant vital communications were
not replied to.

The application for the mast was allowed to pass through under permitted development orders'.

Group member John Hammond said: "Hounslow Council should rescind the order and let our councillors decide not just accept the decision of a non-elected
officer.

"If the Vodafone installation goes ahead, it will be a massive eyesore on the High Road and for nearby residents.

"We remain firmly against the use of public property in this manner."

The group accused the council of maladministration and approached the local government ombudsman's office, which carried out a year-long inquiry.

The consequent local settlement report found the council's practices had raised a number of causes for concern.

However, the official investigating the residents' complaints skated over their multi-million compensation bid and denied their £20,000 expense
claim. Instead he offered them £150.

A Hounslow Council spokesman said: "The ombudsman has not made any findings of maladministration against the council.
The investigator did identify some minor areas of concern.
The local government ombudsman is not a court of law.

"The ombudsman's role is to inform and educate councils, and we welcome findings that will help us to improve our systems and processes."
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Source: 11:53am Monday 19th December 2005

5 down and counting: One more mobile phone mast is felled in the Midlands! How come no-one wants them except for Blair & Brown?
United Kingdom Created: 20 Dec 2005
Mobile phone mast is felled

An 80ft phone mast has been chopped down by "professional" saboteurs in the middle of the night, causing damage running into thousands.
Specialist cutting equipment was used to topple the mast - as high as three double-decker buses - which narrowly missed a road as it collapsed.
Phone giant Orange, which was planning to use the mast near Sedgley, said it was lucky no one was injured as the metal structure crashed down.
It was the second attack on the former NTL mast, now owned by Arqiva. An arson attack caused £150,000 damage in 2003.
Residents in Gospel End, on the Dudley-Staffordshire border, had battled to stop the mast going up in 2001 without success.
Orange had been planning to use it but as it had been out of action since the arson attack its demolition will not affect phone users.
Arqiva's Bruce Randle was in no doubt that the mast had been brought down deliberately. Mr Randle said it would not have taken people who knew what
they were doing long to fell the mast.
He said:"It has been chopped down basically, someone has cut the four corners and felled it.
"I think it has been done very deliberately and very professionally by someone who knew what they were doing.
"They must have had the right tools and must have known where to cut - you cannot bring down one of these things with a hacksaw.
"Fortunately no-one was hurt and no services have been affected."
Orange spokeswoman Sue Hammett said the company had been aiming to get the network live before the latest incident.
She added:"We do understand that people may have concerns about mobile phone masts and the perception of risk to health.
"However we wish to reiterate that any concerns should be directed via the appropriate channels and not through direct action."
Ward councillor Michael Evans said feelings were still running high in the area after a proposal to extend the mast by 3ft was pushed through
this year despite further objections from residents.
Police in South Staffordshire are investigating.
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Source: 161205

SCRAM Award and SCRAM sparks investigation at Buncefield!
United Kingdom Created: 18 Dec 2005
Press release

SCRAM Award and SCRAM sparks investigation at Buncefield!

Please see enclosed image which includes members of the SCRAM committee accepting a 'Good Citizenship Award' from B:CEN (Birmingham Community Empowerment Network).

This was presented in recognition of SCRAM's contribution to the local community in raising awareness of the dangers of mobile 'phone masts being placed
near schools, hospitals, people's homes and establishments for vulnerable residents.

SCRAM (Seriously Concerned Residents Against Masts) founders Mrs. Lynn Insley and Mrs. Eileen O'Connor said they are immensely grateful to B:CEN for
their continued support both financial and moral. They said without this they would not have been able to give valuable information both over the 'phone and on the internet to people who are electro-sensitive and those battling phone masts where they live.

The website has had far reaching effects all over the world including recognition and thanks from Malaysia where a group successfully used information
gleaned from the SCRAM website to fight masts being erected over there.

However, SCRAM is still waiting for the UK government to regulate and police the ongoing proliferation of masts in the UK.
Eileen O'Connor said 'One of our most recent concerns has been the explosion at the Buncefield Oil Depot.
This has been the biggest explosion in the UK since the Second World War. We were shocked to find an intensive concentration of mobile 'phone masts
within 100 metres of the site'. She said 'Does this make sense? We have reported this to OFCOM who have taken it so seriously they have notified the Health
and Safety Commission who have been asked to contact Eileen directly with their comments'. 'I believe the time has come to urgently address the power
levels and locations allowed for microwave phone masts.'

Eileen O'Connor continued 'I have spoken to Barrie Trower, ex-Government Military Scientist who is an expert in microwave radiation.
He agrees that if there was a vapour leak in the oil plant microwaves could ignite and cause an explosion.
He also pointed out that you're not allowed to use mobile phones at petrol stations and that microwave tracking systems have been suspected in causing
some aircraft explosions on empty tanks. He informed Eileen that aircraft companies have been advised in the past to use protective shields around fuel
tanks because of tracking devices such as radar and electromagnetic waves. Could one of these transmitting Antennae - several being 3G UMTS 2100Mhz -
be the cause of escaping vapour being ignited? It certainly demands a thorough health and safety investigation'.

We would like to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy Christmas and look forward to fighting for a safer environment in 2006.

SCRAM Committee
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Source: Eileen O´Connor.

So who is Barry Thrower?
United Kingdom Created: 15 Dec 2005
6 March 2004

BARRY TROWER

I trained at the Governments Microwave Warfare establishment in 60’s. I worked with the underwater bomb disposal unit, which used microwaves.
In the 70’s I helped de-brief spies trained in microwave warfare.

My first degree is in Physics (I specialised in microwaves)
My second degree is a research degree.
I have a teaching diploma in human physiology.
I teach advanced physics and mathematics at South Dartmoor College.

Author of the Tetra Report for the Police Federation. I predicted the illnesses, which the officers now complain of.
I predicted the illness’s the residents now complain of.
These are illness’s that occurred before my report was published and cannot be psychosomatic.

At a conference in Birmingham I said “ This Government, Industry and Government Scientists will be responsible for more deaths (of civilians) in peace time
than all the terrorist organizations ever.” The evidence I have is showing this is correct. I put my money where my mouth is and stand my ground.
It is easy to prove TETRA is not safe.

I would like those who sign to say it is” and should go ahead, to stand trial in future years for their decisions.

If microwave systems are safe. Why is there a still on-going stealth warfare industry, going back 60 years, based on the fact that these waves
(AT TETRA STRENGTH) are and have been used to cause illness’s now occurring in residents / police officers?
At this point in time it is now into the germ warfare programme. If microwaves did not affect cells, this industry would not exist at all! No microwave communications system can e safe, especially TETRA. They are the same power as in the warfare industry and in Tetra’s case the same pulse rate.

This Industry is a big money earner for everybody who gives permission to go ahead yet they: the Government; Industry; Government Scientists;
do not take any responsibility.
That falls on the Landowner and the user (Police Officer) who “volunteer’s” to use it as part of the 10 & 15 year cancer trial.
The option (given at the Police Conference – Birmingham) was to resign.

Tetra has a possible outlet of 32 Countries and 52 organisations within this Country, at present.
It must be stopped until there is a full judicial and public hearing into every aspect of this industry.
Not as in “Hansard” where the Minister in response to questions say’s “It is within Government guidelines”.
Which is based only on how warm you get: and even then it is wrong.

Somebody, somewhere, must stop what could be the biggest cause of illness around the World since the plague.
This must go public without fear/prejudice from those in a position of power.
The evidence is already to hand and proof can be obtained experimentally. In a few days. I will do it.

It is time that the intelligence of the general public was recognised and their wishes were respected.
As opposed to Governmental pressure from an intimate relationship with Industrial Power/ Money, on planners.

Latest reports

11 children leaving a school (sick) in Sussex.
11 Leukemia and 3 motor neuron diseases around a tetra mast in East Fife.
90 illness’s in Dersley around a new Tetra mast. Sadly, in each case, neither the police nor Industry could attend the MP’s ‘call’ for a meeting.
Only I turned up! How much confidence does that instill in everybody?

Barry Trower

Document 2.:

In Sir William Stewart’s report page 113, frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz are defines as microwaves.
This is in line with the International Commission’s definition of microwaves as defined in 1998.
Therefore everything discussed in this report is in the microwave frequency.

Microwaves react very differently in our water-based bodies to radio waves.
The term ‘Radio Frequency’ is often used to describe microwaves based communication systems.
It is important that the term ‘Radio Frequency’ is not associated with Radio Waves, but associated with microwaves.
Microwaves are used by the communications industry because they are more penetrative than radio waves.

The Stewart Report 2004 asks that anecdotal evidence be taken seriously in the absence of long-term epidemiological studies, concerning illnesses around the area of mobile phone transmitters. Such anecdotal evidence produced July 2002 refers to 92 cases of cancer around just 19 mobile phone transmitters.
Other illnesses on the same paper refer to breast cancers, thyroid, bowel and blood problems.
Another report dated November 2003 titled ‘School References (school and cell tower antennas)’ from 138 schools lists miscarriages, brain tumours,
cancers, breast cancers and teachers ill within this report. One single school had transmitters on its roof in the Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole quarter of France where
8 cases of cancer were confirmed among children in the district.
Common sense dictates that if you surround the school with mobile transmitters, the children will be able to use their mobile phones in school, this obviously exacerbates the problem of surrounding the children with microwave radiation.

The Stewart Report on page 63, section 4.1.1 recommends …..RF fields to which the public will be exposed will be kept to the lowest practical level that will
be commensurate with the system….

The same page the Stewart Group recommend….. Base Stations sited within school grounds that the beam of greatest intensity should not fall on any part of
the school grounds or buildings without agreement from the school and parents. Similar considerations should apply to macro base stations sited near school grounds.

Professor Gerd Oberfield of the Environmental and Resource Studies Programme, Trent University, Ontario, Canada, published a report dated November
and December 2004, titled ‘Putting Cellphone Antennas near schools is too Risky’.
This report states:…..with respect to negative health effects on people living in close proximity to cell phone towers, there are three different epidemiological studies including our recent study. All of them found statistically significant relationships between exposure to radiation and health effects.
Two of the studies did measurements in subject’s bedrooms and found significant increases in stress related symptoms as well and neurological symptoms…. Also depression, fatigue, sleep disorders and concentration difficulty were found. These symptoms were related to exposure levels, not distance from the antennas. A recent research project called EU-Reflex or European Union Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental Hazards from Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure using sensitive in Vitro Methods shows that cells exposed to cell phone radiation exhibit chromosomal damage well below
the exposure guidelines of the W.H.O.

It is worth mentioning that the ICNIRP Guidelines also the NRPB Guidelines are based purely on the thermal effect of the waves.
No account what so ever is given to the effect of the electric and magnetic of the wave interacting with the physiology of the body.
The WHO’s Guidelines are based on the short-term effects of this radiation. No long-term experiments have been done in terms of safety levels.
Further, no experiments have been done to determine the safety levels from the pulsed microwaves exhibited by all microwave communication systems.

Professor Oberfield’s report concludes…..as a general rule cell towers should not be placed near schools.

The recent Stewart Report on page 31, states: ‘Where a base station is to be installed near a school or college, local consultation is also required prior to
the submission of an application for Planning Permission’. Page 53, continues…we also recommend that the mobile phone industry should refrain from
promoting the use of mobile phones by children.
Placing mobile transmitters in the vicinity of schools cannot discourage the use of mobile phones by children.
Only this last Christmas the German VERUM group which consists of twelve research groups from seven countries, concluded that mobile phones cause
DNA damage. It can be argued that as responsible adults in charge of Planning, giving the opportunity to children to use mobile phones, some responsibility
MUST fall on the Planners for the scientific ignorance of the children.

Referring back to semi-scientific and/or anecdotal evidence concerning masts, at this present time in Osafia, Israel in the last four years, 165 people have
died of cancer from living in the vicinity of antennas. This has now become a legal case.

Scientific research by Dr. John Walker has highlighted cancer clusters within the ‘footprint’ of base station transmissions.
Coloured photographs of cancer clusters can be found in the main part of base station beams.
Theoretically, looking at this research, which has covered several transmitters, it should be possible to predict future cancer clusters.
Dr. Walker’s research is on the Internet.

General practitioners in Naila examined the medical histories of nearly 1000 patients, searching for link between the distance of the patient’s living quarters
from a long-standing mobile phone base station and the incidence of cancer. The physicians distinguished between an inner circle, within a 400m radius from
the tower, and the area outside it. Tumours were found in patients living within 400m of the base station three times more frequently than among patients living outside.

The result of the Naila study, November 2004 shows that the proportion of newly developing cancer cases was significantly higher among those patients
who had lived during the past 10 years at a distance of up to 400 m from the transmitter site, and that the patients fell ill on average 8 years earlier.

A similar study from the National Institute of Sciences (Professor Santini) showed from a study of 270 men and 260 women less than 300 m from a transmitter, showed signs of nausea, loss of appetite, visual and motor problems. Less than 100 m the symptoms were irritability, depression, concentration problems, memory dysfunction, dizziness, libido problems, headaches, sleep and skin problems.

The highly respected Professor Olle Johansson in his 2004 paper ‘Malignant melanoma of the skin – not a sunshine story’ states that women seem to be
more susceptible to these electromagnetic waves than men. Possibly because of the influence on hormones within the body. He concludes ..’we believe this environmental factor to be radio frequency, electromagnetic radiation which is capable of affecting the proper function of cell repair and auto immune system mechanisms’.

In an earlier paper Professors Hallberg and Johansson – ‘Cancer Trends during the 20th Century’.
These Professors studied the cancer rates before and after telecommunication systems were introduced into different countries.
They found after the introduction of the systems the cancer rates increased. They conclude….breast, bladder, prostate, lung, colon and cuteaneous
melanoma cancers are all associated with each other….relate melanoma to radio frequency EMF.

It continues, Estonia had a steep increase in the cancer mortality in 1991, the year that the western FM radio frequencies were allowed and introduced
all over the country. This report was published in the Australian Journal of Environmental Medicine, Volume 21, No.1, pages 3-8 (April 2002).

An argument often given against protestors is that cancers cannot develop in under 10 years, therefore all recent cancers cannot be caused by the telecommunications industry. There are many published research papers showing that electromagnetic waves may act as both cancer promoters and
initiators, for example:

Lyle et al 1983 …Hence EMR appears to be both a cancer initiator and a cancer promoter which also enhances progression.
In this way the similarity with cigarettes is quite strong.

Adey 1992…. Many papers give evidence of EMR as a cancer promoter.

Hagmar et al 1994….Microwaves have also been shown to potentize cancer initiators…with exposure to GSM digital base stations….hence EMR is implicated in increasing cancer rates in exposed populations.

Safety Levels

The safety levels set by ICNIRP and the NRPB are the highest in the world. Being thermally based, it is very unlikely, if not impossible for any person to receive
the warming of the body to exceed their safety levels if this person is not sitting right on top of the mobile phone transmitter. As an example of safety levels in units of Microwatts per cm². Our maximum levels for 400, 900 and 1800 MHz transmitters are 2640, 3300 and 10,000 of these units. By contrast Russia and
China have a total maximum of 10 of these units, Toronto has a maximum of 6 and Salzburg has a maximum of 0.1 of these units.

Clearly if you were going into a chemist’s shop and the chemist said ‘you may take either 10,000 pills or 1/10th of one pill there would be confusion.
That is how ridiculous these safety levels look to the rest of the world. Professor Vladimir Binhi of the Russian Academy of Sciences was asked why their
safety levels were so low. He replied ‘In Russia we have experience of what can be achieved by using radio frequency radiation. So we know what we
think is needed to avoid adverse health effects’.

It is published that in Sweden 3.15% of its population is medically recognised and registered as being handicapped from electro-sensitivity.
This number is comparable in California and it is believed Australia. If this number were compared with the population of the UK, roughly 1.8 million people
are electro-sensitive. Electro-sensitivity is best described rather like a food allergy that can only get worse the more you are exposed to it.

Interestingly, a High Court Judge ruled in the case of Yasmin Skelt –v- The First Secretary of State and Three Bridges District Council and Orange PCS
Limited that….reliance on ICNIRP Certification is not enough.

Whilst our Government and its Scientists are keen to promote the knowledge of their scientific advisors, they only represent a small proportion of the
scientists in the world, making judgements on safety levels.

For example: The June 2000 International Conference at Salzburg consisted of 19 of the world’s top scientists in this field and they set the level already
given as 0.1 of our units. It can be argued that the more power given to the companies to ‘pump out’ the more profit they can make. It could also be argued
that as the Government has a huge financial stake with this industry, the Government cannot be unbiased in its decision making processes.

Heat

NRPB and ICNIRP’s safety levels are based purely on thermal effects. Looking at scientific papers, most of the rest of the world disagrees with this assessment. Doctor Cletus Kanavy, Chief of the biological effects group of the Phillips Laboratory’s Electromagnetic Effects Division at Kirkfield Air Force Base in New Mexico, says ‘Large amount of data, both animal, experimental and human clinical to support the existence of chronic non thermal effects….these include behavioural, neural, foetal, blood, metabolic, endocrine and immune problems.

Professor John R Goldsmith who holds 11 Professorships, WHO Officer for Europe and International Consultant for RF Communication, possibly the world’s leading expert in this field (now deceased), wrote in his paper ‘The End of Innocence’ ‘to use the lack of significant heating effect as evidence of lack of risk is the red herring’

During September 2002 at the University of Vienna, 19 of the world’s top scientists met to discuss electromagnetic waves. This was known as the Catania Resolution. They stated ‘we take exception to arguments suggesting that weak, low intensity EMF cannot interact with tissue. There are plausible mechanistic explanations for EMF induced effects which occur below present ICIRP guidelines and exposure recommendations by the EU.

In a confidential note to its military personnel in March 1976, document number DST-181OS-074-76 states ‘personnel exposed to microwave radiation below thermal effects experience more neurological, cardio-vascular and haemodynamic disturbances than do their unexposed counterparts. This document from the US Defence Intelligence Agency continues to warn personnel of headache, fatigue, dizziness, menstrual disorders, sleeplessness, depression, anxiety and so on.

Professor Adey, a Fellow of the American Academy of Scientists and a distinguished visitor of the Royal Society of Medicine said ‘of his own research in
parallel with similar studies in Russia in the early 1980’s showed that radio frequency and the lower microwave range affected enzyme systems that regulate growth and division of white blood cells.

Clearly there is experts’ world opinion both military and from Universities showing that radiation below thermal effects can impinge on our physiological functions.

Pulsing

It should be noted that whilst professional bodies have noticed the effects of pulsed microwaves on the physiology of the body, no safety levels exists for
pulses microwave radiation. All mobile communication systems pulse in some way.

Sometimes academic arguments arise where the word ‘pulsing’ is not used and a word like ‘modulated’ substituted. Theoretically, there can be very little difference between a modulated wave and a pulsed wave.

The Health Council of the Netherlands Radio Frequency Radiation Committee say in their 1997 report, page 134 concerning frequencies of 300 Hz to 300 GHz…. ‘The experimental data indicate that the effects of EM fields occur at lower power densities when the object is exposed to pulsed electromagnetic fields.
In other words the illnesses already reported, you will get quicker if the microwaves are pulsed. The Freiburger Appeal on the 9th October 2002 signed by approximately 2,000 doctors and scientists says ‘One can no longer evade these pulsed microwaves. They heighten the risk of already present
chemical/physical influences, stress the body’s immune system and can bring the body’s still functioning regulatory mechanisms to a halt.
Pregnant women, children, adolescents, elderly and sick people are especially at risk.

Professor Salford at Lund University in Sweden has shown in his work in the year 2000 that pulsing can alter the permeability of the blood/brain barrier in rats.
If occurring in humans, this could have profound effects on brain function.

In terms of planning, I wonder whether encouraging the use of mobile phones in an around children would not have a detrimental effect on their concentration levels during the school day.

The Accumulative Dose
Professors Sosskind, Provsnitz, Lai, Cherry and a Russian International Medical Commission have all warned about the cumulative effect of these microwaves.

This is not surprising; a property of the electromagnetic spectrum is that these waves are accumulative.

If we go out on a cloudy day we can still get sunburned, it just takes longer, slow cookers work on the same principal.

Professor Sosskind and Provsnitz write ‘an accumulated cellular level damage mechanism is not necessarily related to the intensity but can relate to total dose’.

In their report ‘Mobile telephones, their base stations and health’ from the French Health General Directorate January 2001, they warn of the cumulative
exposure over the lifetime of a child.

This body conclude with an interesting sentence stating ‘biological effects occur at energy levels that do not cause any rise in local temperature’
It can be argued that biological effects may not be hazardous but beneficial. It could also be argued that the responsibility for this decision concerning children should lay with the parents, guardians or those in loco-parentis and not the Planners.

3 G
The new breed of 3 G masts appear to be particularly alarming.
The wave lengths of these microwaves are roughly 14 -15 cm.
This is roughly 6”.
It can be argued that any part of a child’s anatomy – head or organ exposed to these waves will act like an aerial and resonate with the frequency.
This is how aerials work and as we are water-based or fluid based, resonance could occur in these organs or bones, in particular bones containing marrow. The power a child would receive at 30m from a 3G transmitter would be roughly 2 micro Watt per cm² and at 100m roughly 0.2 micro Watt per cm².

Professor Hocking in 1996 wrote that a twofold increase in childhood leukaemia could arise from RFR at 0.2 micro Watt per cm². Similarly, Kolodynski in
1996 said that motor function, memory, attention problems may occur at 0.1 micro Watt per cm².

The new 3 G transmitters also have a higher frequency than most mobile transmitters. This higher frequency comes with more energy. It can be argued that
the symptoms of ‘microwave sickness’ will arise more quickly from children if these transmitters are certainly at these powers near schools.

The two papers previously mentioned show that at 100m the children are twice the level argued by Kolodnyski and at 30m 20 times this level.

It can be argued by the Planning Authorities that children are only in school a few hours a day and do not receive long term exposure.
This argument is flawed in so far as children are really everywhere and the transmitters are quite capable of penetrating their bedrooms and play areas.

The Government

The Stewart Report 2004, Section 9 states: ‘Within the UK there is a lack of hard information showing that mobile phone systems in use are damaging to health.
It is important to emphasise this crucial point’ It can be argued that every time scientific evidence is produced or MPs try and bring up this issue in Parliament, the Government’s response is usually the same and that is ‘We would need to replicate this experiment’, which generally means finding funding which can take a
few years, repeating the experiments which can take up to 10 years and then having it published, which can take another couple of years. Another ‘stock answer’ when complaints are broached towards the Government, it is said ‘our transmitters are within Government Guidelines’. This of course means that you won’t get too warm near the transmitter and nothing else.

In the same report, paragraph 4 ‘The UK Government has given strong encouragement to the development of mobile phone technology’.
With respect to the science, Michael Meacher, Minister for the Environment 1997-2003 wrote, which was published in The Times:

‘Our Universities eye the donor as a potential source of funds and try to ensure nothing is said which might jeopardise big new cash possibilities.’
Academics who raise embarrassing questions –

- Who is paying for the Lab?
- How independent is the peer review?
- Who profits from the research?
- Is the University’s integrity compromised?

Soon learn that keeping their heads down is the best way not to risk their careers, let alone future funding. The message is clear, making money is good and dissent is stifled.

Similarly in the science magazine, Scientific American May 2004, Congressman Henry Waxman wrote an article saying roughly the same of the American Government.

Published in the International Ecologist Science & Technology section, June 2004, they write ‘You will hear statements by supposed experts, always the same few in the pay of the telecommunications industry, to the effect that cell phones, cell towers, microwave radiation have been proved safe in countless studies.
It is an easy lie, one that the news media have been eager to propagate. Such studies don’t exist. Quite the contrary, it has been shown that just as for X-rays there is no safe level of exposure to microwave radiation.

In Parliament on 28th January 2004, 20 pages of questions and answers were printed with respect to MP’s complaining about their constituents ill-health from mobile phone transmitters.

At the end of all this the Minister replied ‘UK/ICNIRP Guidelines are based on a comprehensive assessment of current scientific knowledge’.
It could be argued that this is very selective current scientific knowledge and not a wide based review of research from around the world.

This topic was again brought to Parliament on 10th June 2004, and again dismissed.

On 21st May 2004 again MP’s tried to bring up this debate in Parliament. In Hansard, Section 1245 concerns illnesses of school children and reports on what
the MP’s describe as sensible people. Section 1247, again covers children where in one case 11 children under the age of 11 have leukaemia within the
vicinity of a transmitter and Section 1258, the Stewart Report is quoted as saying ‘The beam of greatest intensity should not fall on any part of the school
grounds or buildings, without agreement of the school or parents’.

Again it appears that despite the efforts of many MP’s, transmitters are still being allowed to be erected near schools.

Reported in the Sunday Herald, 4th July 2004 Doctor Keith Baverstok who was the WHOs senior radiation advisor in Europe says that science has been perverted for political ends by Government Agencies which should be protecting public health.

He continues ‘Politics, aided and abetted by some in the scientific community has poisoned the well which sustains democratic decision making’.

He accused the NRPB of mis-using science.

It could be argued that there appears to be no democratic decision making process in where masts are to be sited. If a community does not want a mast, it appears that this community has to take on the communications industry, the Planning Department and the Government in order to win their case.
As the onus is on the community to prove that the mast is dangerous and expenses can run at £140,000 a day, it appears not surprising that both the
Government and the industry are getting their way. It also appears that challenging this ‘super giant’ is futile. The question then is – Is this Democracy?

Legal Responsibility

It was reported in the Saturday Mail, January 22 2005, that when a transmitter was erected outside a house £50,000 was instantly wiped off its value.
If we look at these implications across the country, many billions of £’s must be wiped off the value of houses. The question of course is, who is responsible
for this? Further complications must arise where Planning Permission is not required. It could be argued that legislation should be brought about whereby responsibility is attributed to a named ‘body’.

The Stewart Report 2004, Section 3.0 states ‘It is important that as the Networks develop there is a need for clarity in terms of legal responsibilities and regulations’….

An interesting legal argument can be based on the countries that have over 3% of their population’s electro-sensitive. By association, it could be argued that
3% of this population must also be electro-sensitive.

Electro-sensitivity is written about in the Stewart Report on page 34. Interestingly, the Children’s Act 1989, part 3, section 17, places a legal obligation to
protect children from a ‘perceived risk’. This risk does not have to be real, it could be argued that 3% of our children could be electro-sensitive and therefore should be protected from the harm, supposedly caused by microwaves from base stations.

Also the 1993 UN Directive for Handicapped People, states that they must not be disadvantaged. This argument then may follow that electro-sensitive children cannot be ignored as they have a disability. Clearly, it could be argued that the mobile industry, by introducing such children to their microwaves; if the children are suffering; are breaking the law.

In the Court of Appeal on November 13th 2003, the Court spelled out the duty of care resting on the landowner/occupier of land in respect of activities which
he permitted or encouraged on his land. See Bottomley –v- Secretary and members of Todmorden Cricket Club and others.

An interesting argument is :

- Who are the landowners?
- Do they have full Insurance Indemnity in writing?
- Would this Indemnity cover medical illness for several children for the rest of their lives?

Mr Wulf Dietrich Rose, expert in mobile communications of Kitzbühl, Austria, internationally known for his research works in this field, won his Court case for
the third time on 26th April 2001. He proved, through his studies and researches that mobile radiation represents serious health risks to the nearby living populations like cancer, brain tumours, genetic problems and deformity of newborns.

In this country Appeal Decision APP/U1105/A/04/1137356 concluded that a mast be refused because of … ‘Likely effects of the project on the health of local people’

In 1998 a Court of Appeal Decision found that ‘Genuine public fear and concern is a material planning consideration even if the fear is irrational and not based upon evidence’ – see Newport BC –v- Secretary of State for Wales 1998 JPL 377.

An interesting statement made on 7th June 2004 by Australia’s leading Neuro-Surgeon Dr Charles Teo stated that he has seen a 21% increase in children’s
brain tumours over the past few years. Dr Teo issued a warning on national TV for parents to be aware. It is his opinion that there is a connection between
EMR and the development of brain cancer.

Birmingham City Council Planning Department on 5th January 2004 wrote : ‘I believe that there is a pressing need for urgent further research into the health aspects of telecommunications developments together with a review of the existing guidance and regulations on how such proposals should be considered’.


It was signed by Mr Jones, Chief Planning Officer.

It may be possible that under the Human Rights Act a person’s human rights may be infringed by the sighting of a mast or base station. In so far as the individual’s right of privacy and to quiet enjoyment of the home. Re: The Right of Privacy, Article 8 (2).

UK Case Law also makes it clear that the perceived risk to health need not relate solely to radiation but the stress caused by the actual installation of the mast.

It could be recommended that for in-depth knowledge of this subject, expert legal counsel should be consulted. With reference to Insurance Indemnity, it is worth checking the policy of the landowner. For example: One company excludes any legal responsibility with regard to :

- Personal damage
- Illness
- Disability of any type
- Death
- Mental illness
- Anguish
- Mental or physical pain
- Mental or physical deterioration
- Mental or physical disorder
- Any mental or physical disability
- Any symptoms caused or said to hae been caused by or attributed to the continuous use of mobile telephones.

It could be argued that if you are placing a transmitter near a school, you are encouraging children to use mobile telephones.

It could be argued that Planning Authorities, the Government and the Government Scientists are immune from prosecution because the only ill effects they will recognise are from excess heating. It could also be argued that the insurance companies have not made this comprehensive list of illnesses just for something to do. Their information must be based on worldwide research covering effects below our Government’s guidelines.

Miscellaneous Evidence

There is a plethora of extensive, well researched documents highlighting illnesses caused by microwave sickness around the world. These papers (in their thousands) highlight the illnesses caused by low level (below thermal) microwaves as :

- Arrhythmia
- Heart attack
- Cell death
- Diseases of the blood
- Interference to bone marrow
- Brain tumours
- DNA damage
- Altered Calcium level in cells
- Reduction in night-time Melatonin
- Suppression of the Immune System
- Arthritis
- Rheumatism
- Skin problems
- Lymphatic diseases
- Vaginal discharge
- Vascular system disease
- Tinnatis
- Leukaemia
- Childhood cancer
- Sleep problems
- Mental problems involving depression, irritability, memory loss, difficulty in concentrating, headache, dizziness and fatigue, suicidal tendencies, miscarriage and infertility.

Clearly, this is the work of thousands of overseas scientists, although some are in this country, but below thermal effects, none of these illnesses will be accepted by our Government and its scientists.

It can often be argued that these illnesses are psychosomatic ie: when a neighbourhood sees the erection of a mast, any illness they get is instantly blamed on that mast. Or, psychologically the mast is reported to cause the illnesses.

However, an argument against this are the many cases where masts have been erected without local knowledge and these illnesses still occur.

There are some 40 farm studies where animals have been affected by masts on their land, and once removed, have recovered.
When the animals return they instantly become ill again.

Other studies show effects on the migratory patterns of birds and even insects. Peer reviewed and published works show that plants (trees) can stop growing when exposed to long-term low level microwaves.

It could be argued that everything in this report need to be considered very seriously before the siting of a mast or masts close to schools, residential areas, nursing homes, nurseries and hospitals.

A solution to this problem is not so much where the masts are sited but the power transmitted. If the power transmitted were at the Salzburg level, this would instantly seem more acceptable to the scientific community opposing masts.

The implication of this would probably mean less profits for the mobile industry and mobile phones would not work inside houses. However, mobile phones
would work outside houses and open fields where children are thought to be at most risk from danger and/or accident.

B. Trower
3 Flowers Meadow
Liverton
Devon
TQ12 6UP
Tel: 01626 821 014
My work is done entirely free of charge and I have never accepted money from any person or organisation in the years I have been doing this research.
I consider myself absolutely independent.
All of the documents I have mentioned (enough to fill a suitcase) I am prepared to bring to any Planning Office free of charge, should they wish any photocopies. The last time they were photocopied it took about 6 hours.
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Source: Eileen O'Connor

Just take a look at the amount of phone masts 100 metres from the Buncefield Oil Depot, Hemel Hempstead, and wonder!.
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Take a look at the amount of phone masts 100 metres from the Buncefield Oil Depot, Hemel Hempstead.
Please also read about Stray Voltage information provided to Birmingham City Council Scrutiny Committee on phone masts.
Stray Voltage Case 1:
An incident was reported to SCRAM by an electrical contractor some 12 – 18 months ago, he discovered stray voltage in an office block at the
Kingfisher Centre Redditch.
This contractor has been a qualified electrician for over 35 years and was asked to carry out what he describes as very routine work over a weekend.
The work involved moving sockets etc.
He was horrified by the discovery of registering readings at 1000 volts per metre on his equipment and even more astonished when having shut down the
whole of the electricity supply to the building, he found that his metre was still recording 1000 volts.
Concerned by this stray voltage, he ordered the evacuation of all people from buildings and alerted the Electricity Board’s Inspectorate who attended from
George Road, Erdington.
The Inspector was extremely concerned and baffled by what was happening and called upon a senior inspector.
The Contractor was advised that this stray voltage was certainly not caused by anything that he was doing and that in fact it was not electricity,
but likely to be microwaves entering the building from a mobile phone mast close by, and that as his monitor was unable to read microwaves, it was
transferring into electricity or in fact voltage.
This gentleman shares our concern that microwaves equivalent to 1000 volts of electricity are present in the room, and that should it be the case electricity
at that level was emitting into the building the electricity industry would immediately respond. No-one in this present situation is accountable, or can guarantee
that this is not getting into the National Grid.

Dr John Walker has recorded up to 6 volts per metre in a flat in Boldmere.
Stray Voltage Case 2:
A second example occurred at the home of an 81 year old lady in a 7th floor flat in Manchester.
A low frequency hum exists in this lady’s flat. Various officials visited her home over a six month period, heard the hum, but could not attribute it to their
particular remit. Others witnessed the intermittent lighting of an electrician’s screwdriver indicating some type of power surging into the room.
The professionals called into investigate were the Electricity Board, Ofcom Investigating radio waves, Salford University Physics Department and the lady’s
own GP.
All agreed that there was a problem, with low frequency noise and some type of energy which was intermittent and causing painful spasms and electric
shocks throughout this lady’s body.
Manchester Housing at the advice of Ofcom and the GP are re-housing her, but the cause of the problem still remains unknown.
We believe along with a number of scientists that it could again be microwaves from a nearby mast, manifesting electrical type surges.
Witnesses to the Hum and Screwdriver lighting up include a Councillor, Housing Department, a GP, Salford University Physics Department, the Electricity
Board and Ofcom.
A representative from Ofcom advised the lady that she should be re-housed immediately and suggested Manchester City Council referred to the Stewart
report of May 2000 and January 2005, he put his concerns in writing.
Details can be obtained from SCRAM.

Please see details below of masts just 100 metres from the oil plant, could stray voltage checked?
Is is safe to site this amount of masts near a huge oil plant?
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Source: Eileen O’Connor

Could one of the many close 3G UMTS masts have ignited the Buncefield oildepot??
United Kingdom Created: 14 Dec 2005
I have spoken to Barry Trower ex-Government Military Scientist today.
He agrees that if there was a vapour leak in the oil plant, microwaves could ignite and cause an explosion.
He also pointed out that you're not allowed to use mobile phones at petrol stations and that microwaves tracking systems have been suspected in causing some aircraft explosions on empty tanks.
He informed me that aircrafts have been advised in the past to use protective shields around fuel tanks because of tracking devices such as radar
and electromagnetic waves.

He was commissioned to write the report on Tetra for the Police Federation and is currently advising the Fire Authority with regards to phone masts.

Barry totally agrees with me that you shouldn't site microwave phone masts near an oil plant.

Please find further information/reports enclosed with regards to Barry Trower.

Could one of these transmitting Antennae - several being 3G UMTS 2100Mhz - be the cause of escaping vapour being ignited? It certainly demands a thorough health and safety investigation.
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Source: Eileen O'Connor

Ericsson to babysit 3's UK phone network
United Kingdom Created: 13 Dec 2005
More than 1000 staff from 3 are to be transferred to Ericsson as part of the deal.

3 is to hand over control of its 3G phone network in the UK to Ericsson as part of a massive seven-year managed services deal.
More than 1,000 staff from 3 are to be transferred to Ericsson as part of the deal, although the giant operator has confirmed that no redundancies will be made as part of the move.

Financial details were not released but reports claim the agreement could be worth in the region of $3bn (£1.7bn).
A part of the deal the Swedish phone giant will be responsible for the management, operation and performance of 3's network and IT infrastructure in the UK, although the Hutchison Whampoa-owned company retains ownership of the network and IT assets.
Announcing the deal today 3 UK's chief exec Bob Fuller said the agreement was the "most efficient way to own and manage infrastructure of this kind".
Ericsson already has deals in place with 3 in Australia and Italy, where it manages the cellco's multi-vendor networks and in Sweden, where it looks after 3's messaging platform.
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Source: The Register

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