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RECEPTION FALTERS FOR PHONE MASTS
United Kingdom Created: 16 Mar 2006
Law firm Freeth Cartwright believes times are changing for mobile phone operators and contractors in the East Midlands - and getting tougher for them to put
up masts, nodes and other equipment.
A draft Bill for proposed legislation has been published by the House of Commons called the Telecommunications Masts (Planning Control) Bill which Freeth Cartwright says is of real importance for those with telecoms apparatus on their land or those who have been approached by an operator who wants to place equipment on their land.
It will also be of interest to parties who wish to object to the siting of apparatus in their vicinity, or to landowners who may be considering ways of trying to remove apparatus.

"The Bill is in its early stages and the second reading in the House of Commons is not expected until the end of February," explained Freeth Cartwright associate, Baxter Horton.
"If the Bill becomes law, telecoms operators who apply for planning permission to install apparatus such as a mast or operational ancillary apparatus must supply the planning authority with a 'statement' which is essentially a health warning if it is applicable.

"They must also include a 'certificate' identifying the beam where the greatest exposure to the radio frequency radiation signal is located, and the distance and range of the beam from the apparatus.

"Local planning authorities must make the health warning available for public inspection and indicate how the public may make representations. The planners must then weigh up the health warning and any public representations before deciding whether to grant or refuse planning permission.

"If the beam of greatest intensity falls on land used as an educational or medical facility or any residential property, then the planners must also take into account the 'certificate' information and any public representations before granting or refusing planning permission."

Baxter says this will have a significant impact on operators. "Clearly if the Bill becomes law, operators will need to be much more open and frank in providing information about their sites, and any potential health implications and technical details about the radio frequency signals.

"They will need to obtain fresh planning permission if they wish to replace unserviceable apparatus with equipment of a different type and capacity on an existing site.

"More radical proposals under the Bill may allow owners of educational, nursery or medical facilities to force telecoms operators to give back land compulsorily purchased for use as a telecoms site, or to remove apparatus without having to pay the operator any compensation.

"The legislation may require such establishments to serve 28 days notice to recover their land or remove equipment, and then apply for a county court order.

"If an order is granted, the operator must stop using the equipment and remove it within three months. No details are available as yet on rights of appeal.

"Whilst there is no specific proof that telecoms masts and apparatus are dangerous to health, the Bill is likely to raise the profile of health issues. It would also provide that premises used for medical, health-related or educational purposes have a statutory right to seek removal or decommissioning of equipment on their property, even if there is no contractual right in the operator's lease or agreement.

"Potentially this could be an invaluable weapon where bodies such as schools, universities and hospitals are worried about the public perception of radio emissions and radiation and wish to opt out of pre-existing legal agreements."
Source: Derbyshire Evening Telegraph. sent by Catherine Gamba

The Serotonin Deficiency Syndrome:
USA Created: 16 Mar 2006
A Holiday Tale of Tryptophan, Serotonin, Melatonin & Tinnitus

If you’re like me, you had a very enjoyable evening on Thanksgiving. After dinner and throughout the evening I was feeling very content and at ease. After a mellow evening, I slept like a baby. The next day we had leftovers for dinner and had the same great evening. I had a wonderful night’s sleep that night too. That turkey really did a number on me and was a welcome introduction to the holiday season.

Most of us know, I believe, that it’s the tryptophan in turkey that promotes the sense of well-being we associate with Thanksgiving. I began to wonder if this could have an effect on tinnitus and the anxiety and stress that often accompany it. I began to look into the effects of tryptophan. What I found out was very interesting and quite surprising. I believe there is a definite connection between tryptophan and the way many people experience tinnitus.

Tryptophan is an essential amino acid which means it is not produced by the body but rather must come strictly from the diet. There are eight essential amino acids and fourteen non-essential amino acids. The non-essential acids can be made inside the body from other components. Dietary sources of tryptophan include turkey and other meats, soy products, cottage cheese, milk, brown rice and peanuts.

In the brain, tryptophan converts to serotonin, the neuro-transmitter responsible for feelings of well-being, calmness, personal security, relaxation, confidence and concentration. Decreased serotonin levels play a key role in the development of depression. The only source for serotonin in the brain is tryptophan. It cannot be converted from any other substance. If there is not enough tryptophan in the diet, it can lead to anxiety and depression.

Depleted serotonin levels are responsible for depression and other psychological disturbances, such as anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, low concentration and low self-esteem. This is what has increasingly become known as the Serotonin Deficiency Syndrome.

Some serotonin is converted in the pineal gland to melatonin, which regulates sleep patterns. Melatonin has been shown to be helpful in getting a good night’s sleep and in some cases reducing tinnitus symptoms. A clinical study conducted at the Shea Ear Clinic in Sarasota, FL, tested 3 mg melatonin on tinnitus patients for one month. They found that those people who did not have trouble sleeping were not greatly benefited by the melatonin. However, of the people who had difficulty sleeping, 47% reported an overall improvement in their tinnitus.

My personal experience is that 3mg of melatonin will put me right to sleep, however I wake up in the middle of the night. I feel rested but I’m wide awake at 3:00 AM. I find that 3 to 6 mg of time-release melatonin will keep me asleep all night long.

There are basically two ways to rectify the Serotonin Deficiency Syndrome. One method is through the natural method of increasing tryptophan intake and the other through the use of anti-depressant medications such as Prozac. This is where the story gets very interesting.

There is a class of pharmaceutical medications called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) anti-depressants. SSRI anti-depressants include Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and others. Their method of treatment is to concentrate existing levels of tryptophan in the brain so they stay in the synapse between nerves and facilitate communication. They do not create serotonin, as many people believe, but simply collect the existing serotonin so it is used more effectively. Some studies suggest that long term use of SSRI anti-depressants actually reduce serotonin levels.

SSRI anti-depressants are in wide use today and prescribed for many people with tinnitus. In some cases they help but there are a host of side effects. Some of the more serious side effects include heart palpitations and chest pain, decreased libido, suicide (this has been in the news recently as it affects teenagers), nervous system disorders and tinnitus. The Physician’s Desk reference lists tinnitus as a frequent side effect of SSRI anti-depressants. There are no side effects to supplementation with tryptophan. So here we can have a situation where an individual who is depressed because of tinnitus is prescribed a medication that is a known cause of tinnitus.

It would make sense to go to the root of the problem and simply supplement the diet with extra tryptophan. One would think so but it’s not that easy.

Tryptophan used to be an easily obtainable and inexpensive dietary supplement in the United States. It still is in the rest of the world but since 1990 it has been banned in the US as an “untested, unapproved and hazardous drug” by the FDA. It is still regularly used in Canada, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany and France. There have been no reports of any serious or widespread health problems.

The following has been reported in many journals and media outlets. (I found some of the information on the Life Extension Foundation website in an article titled “The FDA Ban of L-Tryptophan: Politics, Profits and Prozac” by Dean Wolfe Manders, Ph.D. Dr. Manders has extensively researched and lectured on the medical politics of tryptophan.)

In 1989, there was a spontaneous outbreak of a rare and deadly disease in New Mexico called Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome, or EMS. The common cause was traced back to the fact that all the people who became sick had been using tryptophan as a dietary supplement. EMS caused the deaths of 37 people and permanent disability in another 1500. The FDA immediately issued a recall of all tryptophan on the market.

Later, researchers at MIT identified the true culprit as a contaminant in the tryptophan that came from one specific company. The Japanese manufacturer, Showa Denko, was trying to speed production by using untested, genetically engineered bacteria in the fermentation process. This produced a toxin called EBT which made its way into the final product. They also cut corners in the purification process by reducing the amount of activated charcoal used to filter the final product by 50%. Showa Denko was much more interested in beating their competitors to market than in good manufacturing practices. This company is a highly unethical pharmaceutical manufacturer which once actually blew-up part of its plant to thwart a Japanese government investigation which would have proved their culpability in contaminating a river with mercury.

The MIT researchers presented their findings to the FDA showing the tryptophan was not to blame for causing EMS. In February, 1993 a US patent was awarded to use tryptophan to treat and cure EMS, the very same deadly condition which prompted the FDA to take tryptophan off the market in the first place. Nonetheless, the FDA held firm and tryptophan is banned in over-the-counter sales in the US.

But there are loopholes to this. The FDA has allowed tryptophan to be imported into the US from Ajinomoto Company in Japan. It is then distributed from the Ajinomoto USA facility in Raleigh, North Carolina through a network of compounding pharmacists across the US. It can only be purchased by individuals with a doctor’s prescription. It emerges as a new prescription medication in the serotonin marketplace. One hundred capsules of 500 mg each costs about $75.00, approximately five times more than if it were sold as a dietary supplement. It is also covered by medical insurance and adds yet another burden to our vastly overstretched medical system.

A greater irony is that tryptophan is routinely used in baby food produced and sold in the US and the Department of Agriculture still sanctions the use of tryptophan used as a nutritional and bulk feed additive in the commercial hog and chicken farming industry.

One other very curious fact arises. The FDA banned tryptophan on March 22, 1990. Within four days, March 26, 1990, Newsweek featured a lead article praising the virtues of the brand new anti-depressant drug, Prozac. Its multi-color cover displayed a floating, gigantic green and white capsule of Prozac with the caption: “Prozac: a breakthrough drug for depression.”

The fact that the FDA ban of tryptophan and the Newsweek Prozac cover story occurred within four days of each other went unnoticed by both the media and the public. Yet to those who understand the effective properties of tryptophan and Prozac, the concurrence seems unbelievably coincidental. One possible explanation for this can be found in a report by the FDA Dietary Supplement Task Force on June 15, 1993. It had been working on developing FDA policy toward nutritional supplements. On page two, the report states, “The Task Force considered various issues in its deliberations; including … what steps are necessary to ensure that the existence of dietary supplements on the market does not act as a disincentive for drug development.”

Clinical depression is a very serious condition and treatment through medication is often the right and prudent action to take. However next time a doctor wants to write a prescription for an anti-depressant, you may wish to suggest a prescription for tryptophan, and then find a compounding pharmacist who can supply it. Or you could simply … have another piece of turkey and a glass of warm milk.
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Source: by Barry Keate

Hospital's phone mast has highest signal in UK
United Kingdom Created: 16 Mar 2006
Hospital's phone mast has highest signal in UK
A MOBILE phone mast at a Merseyside hospital has recorded the highest electromagnetic emissions of more than 100 sites in the UK, according to a new report.

The mast sited at University Hospital Aintree registered the strongest readings in a study commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry. However, it still fell well below legal limits.

The report, which looked at masts on 109 school and hospital sites across the UK, found emissions at Aintree are still more than 700 times below international guidelines. The levels are set by the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.

But despite this fact, those opposing masts on sensitive sites say the mast should never have been put there.

Geoff Williams, the Merseyside and Sefton representative of the Mast Sanity action group, said: "No mast should be put close to people in residential areas, schools or hospitals until further research has been completed and my own view is that this mast at Aintree Hospital should not be in that place.

"It is not good enough to say it is operating well within the limits. That gives a false impression.

"Experts say there is a risk, while phone operators say their networks do not pose any risk to the general population. "I realise we have to be forward thinking and have to allow the development of these systems. I support communication, it's the finest thing we have.

"But I don't believe that masts should be close to people, that's what we are fighting for."

A spokeswoman for University Hospital Aintree NHS Trust said: "The trust commissioned two separate independent surveys on radio frequency contamination from the mobile phone base stations located on the roof of the Tower Block.

"These showed that the levels of contamination fell within the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's safety levels.

"The DTI audit has confirmed that the ICNIRP's safe exposure limit is 731 times greater than our measurement, ie potential exposure is well within safety levels."
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Source: By Susanne Elsworth Daily Post. Sent by Catherine Gamba

Organ music 'instils religious feelings' or even shivers down the spine.
United Kingdom Created: 16 Mar 2006
People who experience a sense of spirituality in church may be reacting to the extreme bass sound produced by some organ pipes.
Pipe, Wiseman/NPL

The cannon was put at the back of the concert hall.
Many churches and cathedrals have organ pipes that are so long they emit infrasound which at a frequency lower than 20 Hertz is largely inaudible to the
human ear.
But in a controlled experiment in which infrasound was pumped into a concert hall, UK scientists found they could instil strange feelings in the audience at will.
These included an extreme sense of sorrow, coldness, anxiety and even shivers down the spine.

Sound 'gun'
Infrasound has become the subject of intense study in recent years. Researchers have found that some animals, such as elephants, can communicate with low-frequency calls.
Infrasound can be detected at volcanoes and may provide a way to predict eruptions.

INFRASOUND STUDY
Lies in the range 10-20 Hz
On the cusp of our hearing
Can vibrate internal organs
Volcanoes emit infrasound
Elephants and whales use it

And recent work by some of the scientists involved in this latest study found that hauntings - the feeling that something or someone else unseen is in a room
or building - may also be explained by the presence of infrasound.

To test the impact on an audience of extreme bass notes from an organ pipe, researchers constructed a seven-metre-long "infrasonic cannon" which they placed at the back of the Purcell Room, a concert hall in South London.

They then invited 750 people to report their feelings after listening to pieces of contemporary music intermittently laced sound from the cannon, played a 17 Hz
at levels of 6-8 decibels.

Feel the bass
The results showed that odd sensations in the audience increased by an average of 22% when the extreme bass was present.
"It has been suggested that because some organ pipes in churches and cathedrals produce infrasound this could lead to people having weird experiences which they attribute to God," said Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from University of Hertfordshire.

Pipe, Wiseman/NPL
The pipe put out sound at 17 Hz
"Some of the experiences in our audience included 'shivering on my wrist', 'an odd feeling in my stomach', 'increased heart rate', 'feeling very anxious', and 'a sudden memory of emotional loss'.

"This was an experiment done under controlled conditions and it shows infrasound does have an impact, and that has implications... in a religious context and some of the unusual experiences people may be having in certain churches."

Sarah Angliss, an engineer and composer in charge of the project, added: "Organ players have been adding infrasound to the mix for 500 years so maybe
we're not the first generation to be 'addicted to bass'."

Details of the organ infrasound study are being presented to the British Association's annual science festival, which this year is in Salford, Greater Manchester.
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Source: By Jonathan Amos. BBC News online science staff. Sent us by Catherine Gamba

Emergency radios can jam patients' lifelines
United Kingdom Created: 16 Mar 2006
A two-way radio system being widely adopted by the world's emergency services is even more likely to interfere with the safe operation of some life-critical medical devices than the cellphones which are banned from hospitals, says a British government safety regulator.

The warning comes from the Medical Devices Agency, which has found that Tetra radios can upset heart pacemakers, confuse defibrillators, and stop ventilators working. Tetra - the Terrestrial Trunked Radio System - is being adopted by emergency services in 50 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The MDA's findings came as part of a wider study of the effects of radio interference on hospital equipment. The agency tested a wide range of radio devices by moving them steadily closer to critical items of medical equipment and observing the results.
Wireless communications devices such as the microwave-based Wi-Fi system used to connect laptops to the Internet caused few problems because they transmit at very low power. But some radio handsets interfered with medical equipment from as far as three metres away.
In nearly half these cases the effect was serious and could have "direct impact on patient care", the MDA concludes. Some medical devices which were immune to cellphone interference were affected adversely by Tetra radio handsets.
Sounding the alarm
The MDA published its results on its website in 2001, and also faxed it as a safety newsflash to hospitals. Now the agency is worried that its findings have been ignored. Most concern over Tetra has focused on the alleged health effects of its signals, but Andy Smith, head of critical care at the MDA believes interference poses the greater risk.
Tetra is a European standard that operates at a frequency of 400 megahertz, which is below the microwave range used by cellphones. Both systems send the voice data in pulses, but while cellphones send 217 pulses per second, Tetra has a pulse rate of only 17.6 per second. This makes it less susceptible to radio interference - vital for police, fire and paramedic services.
Experts believe Tetra's low pulse rate is more likely to cause interference than a cellphone because it is hard to filter out. In the MDA's tests, Tetra set off alarms on infusion pumps, while cardiac monitors went haywire and ventilators had to be shut down and rebooted to clear errors induced in software.
An alarm on one device was unaffected by a cellphone but sounded when a Tetra handset came close. Even a printer was affected, and started up of its own accord.
Transmission inhibition
Niall O'Malley, a spokesman for Motorola, one of the many companies making Tetra equipment, points out that the company offers an option called Transmit Inhibit.
This can be used to restrict Tetra use inside a hospital building, say, to receiving calls, not sending them. But this requires the user to remember to switch off transmission before they enter a critical area like an intensive care unit.
The MDA is planning to test the effect of Tetra antennas mounted on hospital roofs. "These will have to focus the radio beam tightly so that it does not hit the ground for 60 metres," says Smith. But it may still have line of sight through a window and into a ward. "Hospitals are getting worried about this," says Smith.
Britain's National Health Service still plans to adopt Tetra. But the NHS had made no comment on the MDA alert by the time New Scientist went to press. Smith says hospitals that have moved to Tetra should carefully manage its use in critical areas.
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Source: Barry Fox, New ScientistPrint edition. Sent us by Catherine Gamba

Exposure of rat brain to 915 MHz GSM microwaves induces changes in gene expression
Sweden Created: 16 Mar 2006
Exposure of rat brain to 915 MHz GSM microwaves induces changes in gene expression but not double stranded DNA breaks or effects on chromatin conformation.

We investigated whether exposure of rat brain to microwaves (MWs) of global system for mobile communication (GSM) induces DNA breaks, changes in chromatin conformation and in gene expression. An exposure installation was used based on a test mobile phone employing a GSM signal at 915 MHz, all standard modulations included, output power level in pulses 2 W, specific absorption rate (SAR) 0.4 mW/g. Rats were exposed or sham exposed to MWs during
2 h. After exposure, cell suspensions were prepared from brain samples, as well as from spleen and thymus. For analysis of gene expression patterns, total RNA was extracted from cerebellum. Changes in chromatin conformation, which are indicative of stress response and genotoxic effects, were measured by the method of anomalous viscosity time dependencies (AVTD). DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Effects of MW exposure were observed on neither conformation of chromatin nor DNA DSBs. Gene expression profiles were obtained by Affymetrix U34 GeneChips representing 8800 rat genes and analyzed with the Affymetrix Microarray Suite (MAS) 5.0 software. In cerebellum from all exposed animals, 11 genes were upregulated in a range of 1.34-2.74 fold and one gene was downregulated 0.48-fold (P < .0025). The induced genes encode proteins with diverse functions including neurotransmitter regulation, blood-brain barrier (BBB), and melatonin production. The data shows that GSM MWs at 915 MHz did not induce PFGE-detectable DNA double stranded breaks or changes in chromatin conformation, but affected expression of genes in rat brain cells. Bioelectromagnetics (c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Belyaev IY, Koch CB, Terenius O, Roxstrom-Lindquist K, Malmgren LO, H Sommer W, Salford LG, Persson BR.

Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
PMID: 16511873 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Source: Eileen O´Connor

How safe (or not) is electromagnetic radiation?
Indonesia Created: 16 Mar 2006
How safe (or not) is electromagnetic radiation?
A recent discussion on the effects of exposure to electromagnetic radiation provided no concrete proof that living in proximity to ultra-high voltage
power lines causes significant human health problems.
In his presentation, host speaker Marzan A. Iskandar of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology said that international studies
had not firmly established a link between electromagnetic field exposure and health problems.
But the judgment arrived at by most of the studies was that, if there was a risk, it was not a major one and concerned only people exposed on an ongoing basis.
"Based on the consensus of the academic community, there is no scientifically proven causative relation between high-voltage power lines and health risks," he said.

Corroborating the argument, an associate professor in high-voltage engineering at Bandung Institute of Technology, Bambang Anggoro, said power
lines in Indonesia met international standards.

According to the International Radiation Protection Association, a human can withstand ongoing exposure to an electromagnetic field that is below
5 kilovolts per meter.

"I have conducted research at many locations in Sumedang, Cirebon, Kuningan, Majalengka and other areas of West Java and found that the electromagnetic radiation at those places was below 1 kV per meter," he said.

In the course of the research, he said, his team asked people living in proximity to power lines if they believed their health was at risk.

"The results show that only 3.1 percent of respondents felt that radiation from the power lines was harmful to their health, while 63.8 percent said
the power lines were harmless," he added.

Another speaker in the discussion, professor Corry Wawolumaya of the University of Indonesia's school of medicine presented his thesis, taking a
more scientific approach to the debate.

He acknowledged that further studies were necessary to ascertain whether the protesters' health problems were associated with the distance of
their homes to power lines.

"The only way to determine the effects of high-voltage power radiation on human physiology is for scientists to carry out a case-control study, which could take years of research," he said.

He said a 20-year case-control study by the U.S. epidemiologist Nancy Wertheimer and physicist Ed Leeper, which was published in 1979, showed
a statistical link between childhood cancer and the distance of their home address to certain types of high-voltage power lines.

The Wertheimer study was later disputed by other research, including the latest study in 1977 by the National Cancer Institute of America, which
involved 1,200 children.

"But it's still undisputed that those who live under high-voltage power lines are 1.7 times more likely to get cancer," Corry said.

Another physician, Anies -- who was unable to speak in the discussion -- estimates the cancer risk is higher.


In his book Electrical Sensitivity, published in 2005, Anies said a person living in proximity to high voltage lines was 5.8 times more likely to get cancer.

He introduced his theory termed Trias Anies, saying there were three types of health problem resulting from electromagnetic exposure in the
preliminary stage: headaches, dizziness and chronic fatigue symptoms, all of which were complained of by the protesting residents.
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Source: S: The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Workshop about Non-Ionising Radiation Impacts on Wildlife
United Kingdom Created: 16 Mar 2006
Dear all ESsers,

We, ES-UK, are invited to a workshop of English Nature/Centre for Ecology and Hydrology this Friday about Non-Ionising Radiation Impacts on Wildlife.
Some detail attached.

All observations, anecdotes and knowledge about this topic is welcome, soonest.

Dreadful tales of TETRA effects on Pagham harbour already received, plus personal accounts of effects on songthrushes, aggression and so on.

We are highly pleased this vital area is now getting the attention it should and need all ammunition, this argument can really put the lid on the 'psychiatric hegemonists' once and for all, especially timely is that G Rubin and S Wessely of Kings College are publishing their shabby pseudo-scientific MTHR efforts
now dismissing all electrosensitives as deluded.

If we have 'psychotic' storks and sparrers "we are all doomed" as Corporal Jones' pal has it.

So all material welcomed at this early stage, science and sifting comes later. "They won't like it up 'em"
Rod
ElectroSensitivity-UK (registered charity 1103018) assisted by The Foyle Foundation.
Rod Read M.Phil.,(Cantab), Dip Psych Couns., Cert.Ed. director
A new organisation supporting sufferers and educating the public in recognition of this sensitive reaction affecting a vulnerable minority exposed to RF,
microwave and general electromagnetic radiation from powerlines, mobile phones, VDUs and all manner of EMF sources. Please support us and receive our newsletter by a donation (£10 min.) to ES-UK as below. We particularly welcome help from scientists, doctors and health experts in understanding causes and links, especially to MCS, CFS and Thyroid problems and in diagnosis and treatments generally.
From ES-UK Office, Bury Lane, Sutton, Ely, Cambs, CB6
2BB. Tel: 01353-778151 or at
www.electrosensitivity.org.uk <http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk/>; Also by e-mail at electrosensitivity@hotmail.com </ym>
Trustees: Professor of Human Radiation Effects Dr
Denis Henshaw, Dr David Dowson MD., ChB, Jean Philips
BA. Scientific advice from: www.powerwatch.org.uk <http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/>;, Keith Jamieson Dip.AAS. Bsc(Hons) RIBA. Inst.Ph., Environmental Consultant and others. Visit www.tetrawatch.net <http://www.tetrawatch.net/>;
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Phone mast scare in High Park, Southport
United Kingdom Created: 15 Mar 2006
Its alleged that a Southport Children’s Nursery has three children with leukaemia

It is not surprising that a 30 foot metal phone mast should cause anger amongst local residents forced to live with the eyesore, but is there more at risk?

Parents in High Park, Southport have turned to Phil Rodwell the Prospective Conservative Candidate for Norwood Ward in May’s local election for help after they were informed that there are three children at a nearby children’s nursery with leukaemia (although one child may have moved last year).

Its alleged that Dr.George Carlo (who headed the wireless industry research team in the early 90`s) claims that phone masts are a danger, and parents in High Park, Southport are now worried for their children’s health.

It’s Fifteen years since the birth of the mobile phone, and there are now over 35,000 masts and base stations in Britain.

There have always been objections to the erecting of phone masts, not least because of their unsightly bulk.

Many residents living, quite literally, in the shadow of a mast, are far more concerned with the risk they say it poses to their health.

Wishaw resident, Eileen O'Connor, claims that the mast, erected in her village over a decade ago, brought with it a variety of health complaints from many local residents ranging from nosebleeds to headaches.

But for Eileen, it was worse - breast cancer.
"I have gone through so many emotions," explains Eileen. "It's complete shock and anger that this has been allowed to happen."

Although there is no statistical evidence to support the claim of a cancer cluster in Wishaw, Eileen firmly believes that the two are linked and set up local campaign group SCRAM - Sutton Coldfield Residents Against Masts.

Last year there were 30,000 cases of brain and eye tumours reported as a direct result of cell phone use.
2006 will see about 50-75,000 new cases of brain and eye tumours and estimates are that by 2010 there will be 300,000 to 500,000 cases of tumours.

These numbers are based on an adult averaging 500 minutes per month. Adults do not use their phones as much as children ages 12-17 whose brain tissues are still developing and use an average of 1,000 minutes per month now.

These numbers come from Dr.George Carlo who headed the wireless industry research team in the early 90`s and discovered definitively that cell phone use does cause cancer.

The cell industry distanced themselves from Dr. Carlo’s research (they paid for it - $28 million dollars) when the results came in.

Dr. Carlo authored a book called Cell phones-Invisible Hazards of the Wireless Age in the mid 90`s. He recently founded the non-profit organization Safe Wireless Initiative -- to bring this information to the public.

Sir William Stewart carried out an investigation for the govt and reported last year that as an advisory measure masts should not be located near schools or hospitals.

Dr Walker will be visiting Southport on 30th & 31st March in order to carry out a full spectrum test.

Please click useful link below for Prof Henshaw's critique of the HPA-RPD Melatonin Report (dated 2nd March 2006).

http://www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk/CritAGNIR.htm

Prof Henshaw's attended the EMF Discussion Group meeting, and he is one of the most highly regarded scientists in the country who does a lot of work for childhood leukaemia.

Onthespot - your online reporter
Phil Rodwell is working on the case.
Do you have a story to tell? Please text or phone 07930717137 or email press@southport.gb.com
Source: Reported by: onthespot, sent us by Eileen O´Connor

Breast Cancer Couple claim mast victory
United Kingdom Created: 15 Mar 2006
George and Margaret King wanted the mast moved

A couple who both suffered from breast cancer are claiming victory in their battle to have a phone mast moved from its site near their home.
George and Margaret King, who moved to their home in Crowborough, East Sussex in 1997, both had to have mastectomies.

They accept there is no proof phone masts cause cancer but say they should not be sited in residential areas.

A spokesman for Vodafone said: "We have agreed to vacate the site provided we can maintain the service locally."

I hope that in the future these masts can be placed away from residential areas
George King

Mrs King developed breast cancer two years after moving to their Church Road home.

Her husband was diagnosed with the disease, which is rare in men, two years later.

He also developed eight skin lesions on sites including his ear and nose.

The mobile phone mast is 3m (10ft) from the Kings' garden fence, on land owned by ATS Euromaster.

Mrs King has campaigned for two years to have it moved.

"We enjoy our garden, but we are living constantly under this mast," said Mr King.

"I hope that in the future these masts can be placed away from residential areas - away from homes, schools and hospitals."

New site
ATS ended its licensing agreement with Vodafone two years ago and said it was happy the mast was being moved.
Vodafone said it would remove the mast as soon as a new site in the area could be found.
"There is no substantiated evidence that phone masts have adverse effects on people's health," said a spokesman.
"Masts must be located where mobile phone users are - where they live, work and travel - in order to provide a service many of us value."
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Source: BBC, 13 mar 2006

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