* Tory
Leader demands research into five-in-seven figures
(28/8/02)
Tramès per Klaus Rudolph (Citizens'
Initiative Omega)
Ilford
Recorder august 16, 2002
MP in call for probe
into mast links with cancer
REPORT: ANDREW GOLDER
TORY leader Iain Duncan Smith has called for an urgent government probe
into the link between mobile phone masts and cancer. He made his comments
after it emerged that people living in five of the seven homes surrounding
Forest House in Carnarvon Road, South Woodford, - which has 16 masts on
its roof - have contracted cancer.
Residents blame the masts and want them removed immediately and Redbridge
Council bowed to public pressure last week and agreed to monitor the radiation
levels coming from the masts to see if they exceeded recommended government
guidelines.
Mr Duncan Smith, the Chingford and Woodford Green MP, said: "There
is an urgent need for the government to carry out swift research into
the connection between mobile phone masts and cancer. "Any decision
taken in the interim regarding mobile phone masts in residential areas
must be treated with great caution. If research shows that there are clear
links between masts and cancer, there must be an urgent and immediate
rethink of government policy."
Ace Residents' Association chairman Dr Frank Middlemiss said: "The
mobile phone companies deny there is any connection but it is difficult
to tell that to people who have cancer and live near the masts. They obviously
think there is a connection. "Everyone I've spoken to is absolutely
horrified by the cancer rate along Carnarvon Road.
What we'd like to do is rid the building of the phone masts all together
but it will be a long fight.' Constance Nash, 80, has lived in Carnarvon
road for 30 years and says she was assured the masts were safe when the
first one was constructed 20 years ago. But she was diagnosed with breast
cancer earlier this year and both her neighbours have cancer. She said:
"There is so much cancer about in this area it is frightening. Everyone
is extremely concerned because cases have started cropping up in neighbouring
roads. I certainly wouldn't move here now."
At present planning applications to construct mobile phone masts cannot
be turned down on health and safety grounds.
http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/archived/wk45/ilford/news/asp/news3.asp
Message by Dr. Miguel Muntané forwarded by Roy Beavers
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