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Anti-mast campaigners showcase
Coleshill cancers
The
Inquirer
Tuesday April 23, 2007
THOSE WHO ardently believe that mobile phone masts are linked
to a high incidence of cancer appear to have found a showcase in
Coleshill, Warwickshire.
According to a report in The Sunday Times, Margaret Hines-Randle
and 30 of her neighbours in Coleshill are either suffering with
cancer or have already died from it.
Residents collated data on their illnesses and sent it to Dr John
Walker, a member of the Electromagnetic Radiation Research Trust
who studies instances of cancer around mobile phone masts.
He told the paper, "The masts typically throw out microwaves
in three directions, and where the beams hit the ground is where
you will usually find the cluster of cancers or disease."
In a single street - Castle Drive, and part of adjacent roads -
31 cases of cancer were found (including Hines-Randle). That's equivalent
to one in every second person living in the immediate area.
"Coleshill has the largest single cluster I have yet seen,"
claimed Dr Walker. "This may be explained by the fact that
Castle Drive is sited at the point where the beams from two masts
converge, one of them at [St Edward’s] school and another
on the other side of the town."
Having enlisted the help of their local MP, the residents have
succeeded in getting mobile network operator, O2, to agree to tear
down the mast sited next to the school.
It is 15 years old and was probably due for replacement anyway.
The fact that phone masts don't radiate directly underneath their
physical location appears to have been overlooked.
The British government has adopted guidelines issued by the International
Commission on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) which state
that base stations should not emit more than 10 watts per square
metre - depending on the frequency used.
While most masts give out only a minute fraction of this amount,
campaigners still feel the level is too high. Some experts have
said current levels should be reduced more than a thousandfold.
Plus they point to cities such as Salzburg in Austria where levels
have been set way below those imposed in the UK.
Even if there is no proven link between phone masts and cancer,
the mobile phone industry has to wake up to the fact that most people
believe there is one. µ
More on this story ... Sunday
Times
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