ENGINEERS have moved in to put up a phone mast on top of a barn at Nightingale Farm, Bishampton.
The mast had been opposed by a group of villagers. At a meeting on Tuesday night, the action group against it resolved not to give up.
Spokesman Paul Littlehales, who lives near the site, said: "Everybody is upset, even my eight-year-old daughter was crying when she saw the men working on it."
Campaigners are braced for another fight to stop a mobile phone mast being put up near homes, months after councillors rejected the application.
In February, members of South Norfolk's planning committee went against the recommendation of officers to reject plans for an 11.7m T-Mobile mast opposite the Crown pub in Norwich Road, Costessey. More than 80 people wrote to South Norfolk to object to the plans because of the visual impact and fears about possible effects on health.
PHONE masts opponents have accused council bosses of double standards after town hall staff were advised to cut down on using work mobiles.
Bolton Council's new mobile phone policy advises staff to minimise use of their phone and keep calls as short as possible because the possible health risks are not fully known.
About 4,000 of the council's 13,500 employees have work mobiles, but the policy urges them to use a landline or email where possible and keep their fingers away from the phone's antenna.
Cell Phones May Interfere With Some Critical Care Medical Devices, Experts Say
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Medical News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Sept. 5, 2007 -- Dutch doctors today reminded hospital visitors to turn off their cell phones -- for the sake of health, not etiquette.
The reason: Cell phones may interfere with critical care equipment such as ventilators and external pacemakers, report the University of Amsterdam's Erik Jan van Lieshout, MD, and colleagues.
This story describes how hospital medical devices can be affected by cell phone radiation emissions. It is interesting that hospital staff know about the harm that can be caused to patients by machines malfunctioning, yet very few medical staff are aware of the harm to health, that is caused directly to people, by the same radiation.
PLANS to erect a mobile phone mast near homes in Woodhall Park have been refused.
T-Mobile had applied for early approval to put up the three-antenna mast and associated equipment on the footbridge over Westfield Way.
Yesterday Swindon Council officers rejected the plans and Moredon councillor Colin Lovell has said he is starting a campaign to get mobile phone mast legislation changed.
HAVING A WORD: Cllr Blakeley and fellow protestors in discussion with a police officer
A GROUP of peaceful protestors were threatened with arrest during a last-ditch attempt to stop the installation of a mobile phone mast.
Work on the 15m T-Mobile telecommunications pole, given the go-ahead after a council blunder, started on Tuesday morning outside estate agents Brennan Ayre O'Neill at Moreton Cross.
Tory Cllr Chris Blakeley along with Cllr Leah Fraser and campaigners, met engineers at the site and pleaded with workers not to go ahead.
TWO Wirral councillors threatened with arrest last week over a mobile phone mast protest have highlighted the case with Conservative party leader David Cameron.
Cllr Chris Blakeley and Cllr Leah Fraser took a copy of the Wirral Globe to Bolton in a bid to demonstrate how the current planning laws favour the developers without giving enough say to local people.
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