Using specialised equipment, I have measured an unbroken field of microwaves throughout central Brighton at levels warned by independent researchers to cause serious biological effects.

In 2002 The Freiberger Appeal - a document detailing research on the patients of EU doctors found "a clear correlation between the appearance of disease and exposure to pulsed high frequency microwave radiation" (HMFR) from phone masts, cell phone use and digital cordless phones.

It linked HMFRs to "a dramatic rise in severe and chronic diseases among our patients", particularly learning and behavioural disorders, extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, heart rhythm disorders, heart attacks and strokes among increasingly younger people, brain degenerative diseases, epilepsy, cancers and many lesser conditions.

Its demands include an end to further masts, a ban on mobile use

by small children and extreme restrictions on use by adolescents.

Other known effects of such microwave exposure include DNA damage, chromosonal aberrations and fetal malformation.

Studies from various countries have shown even short mobile

calls affect children's brainwaves for up to several hours, usually

causing mood changes and learning problems.

Others link mobile use to memory loss and damaged immune systems in children, while experiments have shown mobiles in use to disturb and distort peoples brainwaves up to 90 metres away.

This is but the tip of the iceberg. Poland, Russia, Austria and Bangladesh have heeded the warnings and banned under 16s from using mobiles while Australia, New Zealand and the US site masts well way from residential areas.

Despite the evidence, our government jealously guards its own advice that under 16s only use mobiles in real emergencies and masts be sited well away from schools.

The result is atrocities such as the primary school in Carlton Hill, Brighton, which has more than 20 masts - including a Tetra - all within 150 metres.

Maybe this unbelievable abdication of responsibility is due to the

billions the Government makes every year from the mobile phone market?

Florence Road,

-Brighton