Well actually there’s plenty of proof that phone masts emit harmful electro magnetic radiation. Just ask T-Mobile themselves. Last month the national press revealed that T-Mobile covered up the damaging results of their own research. The Ecolog Institute, a research organisation which examines the health effects of mobile phones, was commissioned by T-Mobile to investigate the possible health risks of mobile phone masts. The 2003 Ecolog report confirmed:

'Given the results of the present epidemiological studies, it can be concluded that electromagnetic fields with frequencies in the mobile telecommunications range do play a role in the development of cancer. This is particularly notable for tumours of the central nervous system.'

There are also over 1000 independent studies, linking phone masts electro magnetic radiation with serious ill health including cancer, confirming that masts should not be sited within 350 metres of schools or housing. Phone operators tried to dismiss such research, alleging that their own studies suggest no health risk. However T-Mobiles controversial cover up has been blasted by activists and MPs. They said the companys handling of the report was typical as the under-fire industry strived to keep discussion of the health threat off the agenda.

The idea that unelected bodies (the mobile phone companies) have a right to expose people to these risks amounts to enrolling the population in a giant biological experiment without their consent. Considering that children, the most vulnerable of all, are included in this experiment, it is shameful that their interests are disregarded so cynically in the pursuit of profit. (Please see MastSanity/Powerwatc
h websites for further details).

And lets stop transmitting t.v. signals too because they might be harmful.
What about cars and CO2, What about electriciy pylons and raw sewage pumped into the sea?
What about built it anywhere but 'my back yard'? Welcome to the year 2007, this is not the 1950s!

How many of these protesters have a mobile phone? I hope they are still using walkie takies. NIMBYS are destroying this city.

I wish Dave and Gary would stop trivialising such issues as whether these installations are going to cause people cancer or not. If Dave had studied the issue he would know that it is not the carrier microwave that causes the damage to living cells but the low frequency modulation necessary to convey voice information and data. TV and radio signals use a much higher frequency modulation that does not affect cells in the same way. As for Gary, I personally don’t use a mobile phone being quite happy to use my landline. The reason for this is that I do understand how damaging this radiation is. And I would stand up to protest against one of these being put next to anyone’s home, not just my own. Actually it is ignorant views like yours which are destroying not only Brighton but the whole of the UK.