Support for mast protest

A group campaigning for the removal of a mobile phone mast in Southwell are supporting a similar campaign in Suffolk.

Students at Newmarket College are objecting to an O2 mast sited nearby and their local MP, Mr Richard Spring, is supporting them.

No Masts In Southwell, who have been campaigning for nearly a year against an O2 mast at the Telephone Exchange on The Ropewalk, have asked the town’s MP, Mr Patrick Mercer, to contact Mr Spring because of the similar circumstances.

The 15-metre mast at The Ropewalk, which replaced a smaller monopole in September, is around 150-metres from Lowe’s Wong infants’ and junior schools.

No Masts In Southwell are concerned that there is a lack of epidemiological research into the effect mobile phone masts have on children and want this issue to be raised nationally.

Epidemiological studies are used to pinpoint patterns of diseases.

O2 maintain that there are no health risks associated with the mobile phone mast at The Ropewalk.

No Masts In Southwell have shared their knowledge and research about the issue with the campaigners in Newmarket.

They have also supported opponents of a mast in Orston and another in East Sussex as part of their commitment to turn their protests into a national campaign.