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Date: 07 March 2004
To: pressoffice@hpa.org.uk
Subject: Press misrepresentation
Fellow press workers,
I do understand that the media make mincemeat of the most carefully crafted announcements, remarks and footage.
But I was appalled and insulted by the NRPB reply to what is happening around the O2 Airwave Tetra mast at Woodside Road in Worthing, on Meridian News last night.
The news piece was reporting on health effects that arrived with the switching on of this mast, among a very representative group of ordinary residents. They are experiencing very unusual sleep patterns, so disrupted that they will soon be ill from sleep deprivation - including those who drive for a living. They are experiencing constant headaches that mysteriously disappear when away from the area. This is quite aside from (what now seems trivial by comparison) severe interference with televisions and electrical equipment, including essential baby monitors (no, not the Mothercare type, the Great Ormond Street type) essential to the life of a baby girl.
The piece ended with this verbatim quote:
"Established scientific bodies like the National Radiological Protection Board say just the presence of a mast make people imagine they feel ill. It says there is no evidence to suggest Tetra technology is harmful to health."
Did you really mean that? I am suffering, I am not imagining, and I have had no axe to grind. I and my fellow residents ARE evidence. We are sensitive to this thing 100 yards and less from our homes. Please clarify the stance and responsibility of the NRPB (did I hear "Protection" board?) on this matter. I would be interested how you could help us rather than insult us.
Please pass this on to someone who can give a considered and official response to this formal complaint about radiation affecting people's health.
Yours
Andy Davidson
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