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Notes on the International Conference Mobile Communications and Health: Medical, Biological and Social Problems, Sept 20 – 22, 2004, Moscow. WHO suppresses Russian scientific concerns in a bid to harmonize on ICNIRP as a global standard.

Latest ICNIRP examination of EMF epidemiology (ie analytical observation of exposed people). Bottom line: no adequate research has yet been done to calculate levels of risk.

Thanks to everyone who attended the Sidlesham, W Sussex Public Inquiry. Inspector’s decsion expected around Feb 14th.

Sir William Stewart meets people from Norwich and further afield before he completes his update to the ‘Stewart Report’.

Test on police station Tetra mast after complaints of feeling unwell. So what do they ‘test’? ICNIRP compliance! ‘There is no evidence to support claims of ill health in relation to masts or handsets.’ (O2 Airwave) Except that is, the people who are unwell.

TETRA on Barry police station making people feel ill

Waves of discontent. BRAM hosts a lively meeting in Birmingham

Successful demo of alternative to TETRA, Isle of Wight

TETRAWATCH Science pages have had a rearrangement (see new menu) with additions to the pages. See the report from the Prague WHO Electrosensitivity Conference, under Reports.

Mast Crusaders on The Independent Review front page, 23/11/04!

First study of phone mast dangers. Yes, first ... New government study by psychology department to decide if we are telling the truth.

If high-frequency masts are so safe, why aren’t they in the boss’s back garden? The Times 22/11/04

Emergency services face network delays 17 November 2004

Police up in arms about ‘Home Office magazine’. Government intervention and ‘education’? A trend that also ensures the ‘success’ of TETRA.

Naila, Germany: cancer tripled after five years operation of a mobile phone mast.

Masts near schools without consent? Peter Sitch, O2 Airwave: ‘We comply with government regulations. It may turn out that those guidelines are wrong but that’s what we comply with. ... We’re all going to die and environmental factors will have something to do with that, you cannot make anything in life absolutely safe.’

BBC 3, 11 November: revealed 2,350 schools with masts within 200m. Every school in London has a mast within 200m. 76% failure rate by operators to consult with schools according to their own 10 commitments. Worst school: 27 masts within 200m. T-mobile internal emails prove deliberate deception in secret installation of 3G masts on council properties. Mobile Phone Mast Plague.

12 November 2004: New research announced by MTHR. Can base stations really be doing what people say they do? Is there a useful ‘personal exposure meter? And is there a difference in pulsed and non-pulsed signals in the biological effects? All news or no news? (No details yet available, but see UK Research.)

Officers' families worried: Birmingham.

‘If police don’t want to use Airwave, they should consider leaving the service!’ (Police Federation Health and Safety Conference, Home Office advice, 3 November 2004.)

Sir William Stewart recently became chairman of the Health Protection Agency and the National Radiological Protection Board, which it now embraces. What does he say about the certainty of safety?

Officers’ fears over police radio (Dorset and Hampshire). But note that Airwave is not being used in Australia, New Zealand and Italy as suggested here.

TETRA planning appeal on Brinker’s Lane, Wadhurst, E Sussex dismissed. Grounds: damage to visual amenity in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

All TETRA masts removed from Sitefinder website. In the October update to the Ofcom Sitefinder website all references to TETRA base stations were removed. In fairness (?) this may have been an error. However, it is more likely that after three years, having pointed out that masts an easy target, it was declared a national security issue. But you can’t hide TETRA. We complained, and a month later TETRA reappeared. More ...

Mobile phones again linked to cancer: 13 October 2004

Why no wiser about mobile risks? Sunday Times 3 October.

Sir William Stewart, head of the Health Protection Agency and NRPB, is to attend a public meeting in Norwich, 26 November. Yes, you have just discovered that the article on the Eastern Evening News has been removed. This is the third article on TETRA gone missing from this source. Meeting cancelled or not? Never mind, this is what it said: catch the sentiment. Is this newspaper being persuaded because of the reports from North Walsham police officers?

Edinburgh: £2.9bn police radio system ‘faulty’

A Popular Revolt. This excellent article appeared in The Ecologist, 17 September 2004. What it describes is popular uprising, corporate bullying and a political and scientific scandal. Faster web style version.

Sussex Local Police Authority consultation meeting
Arundel Town Hall. 6.30pm, Monday 4 October 2004. Has there been enough consultation about Airwave? Have they bought the system or handsets wisely? Has our money been spent on obsolete equipment? What about all the people who are suffering from base station emissions? Maybe it’s time you asked.

Why is the Airwave project so important, and why is there no response to the harm it appears to be causing? Why is the cost acceptable? Why is it so important to deny what everyone is saying about the effects on health? You get suspicious after a while, because there are quite rational reasons why things are the way they are. See a personal discussion on the wider connections.

New page for Comrie and Crieff, Perthshire. Good luck!

Competition time. Fancy writing the press notice for mmO2 following the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, July 2005, saying how the world was saved by Airwave? But already there’s disagreement between planners and Tayside police on one side and O2 Airwave on the other, over the masts required.

Mobile masts on fire stations a health problem to US firefighters

For a scientist’s critique of how things are, August 2004, read Barrie Trower (author of the original report on TETRA to the Police Federation) (PDF)

North Walsham, Norfolk: another claim that there is no evidence from the coincidence of adverse symptoms and TETRA masts being turned on nearby.
ie: Don’t trust what policemen say – ?! Let’s see it again: ‘Police officers illness linked to mast’

Seeing items like this reinforces the urge to see something positive being done before too many people are adversely and unfortunately affected beyond what they are currently having to endure. If the NRPB and mmO2 insist that all these coincidental symptoms from all around the UK are completely unconnected from this unique TETRA configuration, then the NRPB and Health Protection Agency have an urgent public duty to find out what else it is.

Welcome statement from new mmO2 Chairman David Arculus. ‘You’re all psychosomatic scaredycats who don’t know what’s good for you.’

Now that Crown Castle has sold its operation to Transco, they list no interests in the UK. This also means that the map of masts available in Crown Castle has been removed and Transco is not mentioning its interests in the business.

Sidlesham, West Sussex. The twin-tracked application in attempt to avoid appeal was thrown out 8 votes to 0 at Chichester. The grounds? Health.

We would like to think there was no attempt at cover up, but official stories around a second police death attributed to TETRA do not add up.

It would be funny, if it were not true.

You might be forgiven for thinking there were no alternatives worth considering. Or you could attend the Land Mobile Conference and see how the police could have more than an expensive mobile phone.

23 July 2004. Despite a number of outstanding masts and areas lacking coverage, Sussex Police Authority has countersigned with O2 Airwave to accept the Sussex TETRA network as Ready for Service (RFS). Read the recent Appeal hearing for Patching for some interesting comments.

Police update, and sad news: Prediction, and now police deaths attributed to use of TETRA

New pages: On the unevenness of emission patterns and hot spots; More info. on Tetrapol working in Europe; More on Airwave failings; Current scientific interest; Protect yourself; Questions demanding an answer. Remember new links get added all the time too, so scan the Links pages.

June: Bognor has grown more TETRA, Drummond in Scotland rejects Tetra, Airwave out of date before it is complete. All in the news.

Rosemary Park Nursing Home(!), Kingsley Green Sussex:this application was heard before the Chichester District Planning Committee (N) on Wednesday 16th June. Despite objections and clear arguments, the application was accepted 7 to 4.

Sidlesham: The Chichester District Council Public Enquiry will open at 10.00 am on Thursday, 30th September at East Pallant House; it is expected to last 2 days.

Mobile phone technology and health, immediate precautionary measures Read and sign this European petition!

26 May 2004. Bognor mast, on Reynolds Building finally turned off. This is how it felt!

25 May 2004: The Trouble with TETRA. A seminar of this title ran at the BMA headquarters in London, involving a range of Health Protection Agency and Environmental Health representatives from around the country. Led and hosted by the NRPB, delegates learned from NRPB of the breadth of research into mobile technnology currently in progress. Of course there still is nothing on base station epidemiology, but we keep trying. One part of the agenda was also given over to the reported adverse effects etc. as presented by groups like TETRAWATCH.

25 May 2004. Four mast applications turned down by Arun District Council, including retrospective application for Tolmere Farm, Findon. Application for Arundel Castle withdrawn before the planning meeting.

25 May 2004. Graffham Parish Council AGM hears from Mark Dunn, Supt Ross Hollister and John O’Brien the case for and against TETRA. The feeling was unanimous: TETRA is not right.

24 May 2004, A House of Commons Committee Room of MPs heard the case for and against TETRA, from various advocates, including O2 Airwave, and TETRAWATCH. Here is John O’Brien’s contribution. Rest assured, the Airwave position lacked credibility.

Richard Spring MP, Second Reading of Transmission Masts Bill, Parliament 21 May 2004. Read and send to your MP, who was probably not there and allowed its demise, despite a vote of 10-2 in favour.

Protection: New links page on how to protect yourself.

TETRAWATCH: The new synergy, representing all the local interests, with centralised resources for all. TETRAWATCH is pressing the case at all levels for a stop to TETRA as an untested technology, as a risk to health, and a poor value-for-money system.

Police Consultation Meeting, 19th May, The Venue, Chichester. Your chance to attend and demand consultation over the imposition of untested TETRA was squashed. Rebilled locally as a ‘crime and disorder’ evening, one question on TETRA was allowed and a very misleading answer given, suggesting that TETRA was used by emergency services all over Europe, with no bad effects. This is simply not true. When the very reasonable question of monitoring people’s health around base stations was asked, the chair (Ann Graves, Magistrate Member to Sussex Police Authority) abruptly closed the meeting and refused any answer.

Brighton Public TETRA Meeting courtesy of the Green Party. Successful meeting, Friday May 14, 7.30pm, City Gate Centre, London Road, Brighton.

Rogate protest: the Planning Inspector insists that TETRA is OK, protesters are not. Rogate turned out, Caroline Lucas MEP joined them to mourn this victory over common sense and the wishes of the population. This time the mast is legal, but still unwanted.

Caroline Lucas our Green Party MEP visited Bognor, Arundel and Rogate on 5th May

Great news from neighbours Hampshire! ‘Council scuppers police mast plan’

Arundel Group. A meeting at Arundel Town Hall, 27 April, was packed out to raise awareness of TETRA and to share ideas for action. Good luck to Arundel, as we join forces to reject this system. Press release, 20 April 2004 Up and down! Mid April: masts in Worthing, Littlehampton, Bognor, Washington, Arundel have been turned off, on, up and down, and have changed carrier frequencies. Each time the adverse health symptoms change: this is not socially right at all! See our Remote Control page for how it feels. Illegal mast down at Dibden! But read this BBC South Today transcript

Essential reading for you and all your friends and neighbours : ‘Making Waves.’ Rachel Shabi reports in The Guardian Weekend, 10 April 2004

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See our Newsfeeds DVD resource free Acrobat Reader for PDF files	News page: 1 more recent News TETRA to invade Ireland? Notes on the International Conference Mobile Communications and Health: Medical, Biological and Social Problems, Sept 20 – 22, 2004, Moscow. WHO suppresses Russian scientific concerns in a bid to harmonize on ICNIRP as a global standard. Latest ICNIRP examination of EMF epidemiology (ie analytical observation of exposed people). Bottom line: no adequate research has yet been done to calculate levels of risk. Thanks to everyone who attended the Sidlesham, W Sussex Public Inquiry. Inspector’s decsion expected around Feb 14th. Sir William Stewart meets people from Norwich and further afield before he completes his update to the ‘Stewart Report’. Test on police station Tetra mast after complaints of feeling unwell. So what do they ‘test’? ICNIRP compliance! ‘There is no evidence to support claims of ill health in relation to masts or handsets.’ (O2 Airwave) Except that is, the people who are unwell. TETRA on Barry police station making people feel ill Waves of discontent. BRAM hosts a lively meeting in Birmingham Successful demo of alternative to TETRA, Isle of Wight TETRAWATCH Science pages have had a rearrangement (see new menu) with additions to the pages. See the report from the Prague WHO Electrosensitivity Conference, under Reports. Mast Crusaders on The Independent Review front page, 23/11/04! First study of phone mast dangers. Yes, first ... New government study by psychology department to decide if we are telling the truth. If high-frequency masts are so safe, why aren’t they in the boss’s back garden? The Times 22/11/04 Emergency services face network delays 17 November 2004 Police up in arms about ‘Home Office magazine’. Government intervention and ‘education’? A trend that also ensures the ‘success’ of TETRA. Naila, Germany: cancer tripled after five years operation of a mobile phone mast. Masts near schools without consent? Peter Sitch, O2 Airwave: ‘We comply with government regulations. It may turn out that those guidelines are wrong but that’s what we comply with. ... We’re all going to die and environmental factors will have something to do with that, you cannot make anything in life absolutely safe.’ BBC 3, 11 November: revealed 2,350 schools with masts within 200m. Every school in London has a mast within 200m. 76% failure rate by operators to consult with schools according to their own 10 commitments. Worst school: 27 masts within 200m. T-mobile internal emails prove deliberate deception in secret installation of 3G masts on council properties. Mobile Phone Mast Plague. 12 November 2004: New research announced by MTHR. Can base stations really be doing what people say they do? Is there a useful ‘personal exposure meter? And is there a difference in pulsed and non-pulsed signals in the biological effects? All news or no news? (No details yet available, but see UK Research.) Officers' families worried: Birmingham. ‘If police don’t want to use Airwave, they should consider leaving the service!’ (Police Federation Health and Safety Conference, Home Office advice, 3 November 2004.) Sir William Stewart recently became chairman of the Health Protection Agency and the National Radiological Protection Board, which it now embraces. What does he say about the certainty of safety? Officers’ fears over police radio (Dorset and Hampshire). But note that Airwave is not being used in Australia, New Zealand and Italy as suggested here. TETRA planning appeal on Brinker’s Lane, Wadhurst, E Sussex dismissed. Grounds: damage to visual amenity in an area of outstanding natural beauty. All TETRA masts removed from Sitefinder website. In the October update to the Ofcom Sitefinder website all references to TETRA base stations were removed. In fairness (?) this may have been an error. However, it is more likely that after three years, having pointed out that masts an easy target, it was declared a national security issue. But you can’t hide TETRA. We complained, and a month later TETRA reappeared. More ... Mobile phones again linked to cancer: 13 October 2004 Why no wiser about mobile risks? Sunday Times 3 October. Sir William Stewart, head of the Health Protection Agency and NRPB, is to attend a public meeting in Norwich, 26 November. Yes, you have just discovered that the article on the Eastern Evening News has been removed. This is the third article on TETRA gone missing from this source. Meeting cancelled or not? Never mind, this is what it said: catch the sentiment. Is this newspaper being persuaded because of the reports from North Walsham police officers? Edinburgh: £2.9bn police radio system ‘faulty’ A Popular Revolt. This excellent article appeared in The Ecologist, 17 September 2004. What it describes is popular uprising, corporate bullying and a political and scientific scandal. Faster web style version. Sussex Local Police Authority consultation meeting Arundel Town Hall. 6.30pm, Monday 4 October 2004. Has there been enough consultation about Airwave? Have they bought the system or handsets wisely? Has our money been spent on obsolete equipment? What about all the people who are suffering from base station emissions? Maybe it’s time you asked. Why is the Airwave project so important, and why is there no response to the harm it appears to be causing? Why is the cost acceptable? Why is it so important to deny what everyone is saying about the effects on health? You get suspicious after a while, because there are quite rational reasons why things are the way they are. See a personal discussion on the wider connections. New page for Comrie and Crieff, Perthshire. Good luck! Competition time. Fancy writing the press notice for mmO2 following the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, July 2005, saying how the world was saved by Airwave? But already there’s disagreement between planners and Tayside police on one side and O2 Airwave on the other, over the masts required. Mobile masts on fire stations a health problem to US firefighters For a scientist’s critique of how things are, August 2004, read Barrie Trower (author of the original report on TETRA to the Police Federation) (PDF) North Walsham, Norfolk: another claim that there is no evidence from the coincidence of adverse symptoms and TETRA masts being turned on nearby. ie: Don’t trust what policemen say – ?! Let’s see it again: ‘Police officers illness linked to mast’ Seeing items like this reinforces the urge to see something positive being done before too many people are adversely and unfortunately affected beyond what they are currently having to endure. If the NRPB and mmO2 insist that all these coincidental symptoms from all around the UK are completely unconnected from this unique TETRA configuration, then the NRPB and Health Protection Agency have an urgent public duty to find out what else it is. Welcome statement from new mmO2 Chairman David Arculus. ‘You’re all psychosomatic scaredycats who don’t know what’s good for you.’ Now that Crown Castle has sold its operation to Transco, they list no interests in the UK. This also means that the map of masts available in Crown Castle has been removed and Transco is not mentioning its interests in the business. Sidlesham, West Sussex. The twin-tracked application in attempt to avoid appeal was thrown out 8 votes to 0 at Chichester. The grounds? Health. We would like to think there was no attempt at cover up, but official stories around a second police death attributed to TETRA do not add up. It would be funny, if it were not true. You might be forgiven for thinking there were no alternatives worth considering. Or you could attend the Land Mobile Conference and see how the police could have more than an expensive mobile phone. 23 July 2004. Despite a number of outstanding masts and areas lacking coverage, Sussex Police Authority has countersigned with O2 Airwave to accept the Sussex TETRA network as Ready for Service (RFS). Read the recent Appeal hearing for Patching for some interesting comments. Police update, and sad news: Prediction, and now police deaths attributed to use of TETRA New pages: On the unevenness of emission patterns and hot spots; More info. on Tetrapol working in Europe; More on Airwave failings; Current scientific interest; Protect yourself; Questions demanding an answer. Remember new links get added all the time too, so scan the Links pages. June: Bognor has grown more TETRA, Drummond in Scotland rejects Tetra, Airwave out of date before it is complete. All in the news. Rosemary Park Nursing Home(!), Kingsley Green Sussex:this application was heard before the Chichester District Planning Committee (N) on Wednesday 16th June. Despite objections and clear arguments, the application was accepted 7 to 4. Sidlesham: The Chichester District Council Public Enquiry will open at 10.00 am on Thursday, 30th September at East Pallant House; it is expected to last 2 days. Mobile phone technology and health, immediate precautionary measures Read and sign this European petition! 26 May 2004. Bognor mast, on Reynolds Building finally turned off. This is how it felt! 25 May 2004: The Trouble with TETRA. A seminar of this title ran at the BMA headquarters in London, involving a range of Health Protection Agency and Environmental Health representatives from around the country. Led and hosted by the NRPB, delegates learned from NRPB of the breadth of research into mobile technnology currently in progress. Of course there still is nothing on base station epidemiology, but we keep trying. One part of the agenda was also given over to the reported adverse effects etc. as presented by groups like TETRAWATCH. 25 May 2004. Four mast applications turned down by Arun District Council, including retrospective application for Tolmere Farm, Findon. Application for Arundel Castle withdrawn before the planning meeting. 25 May 2004. Graffham Parish Council AGM hears from Mark Dunn, Supt Ross Hollister and John O’Brien the case for and against TETRA. The feeling was unanimous: TETRA is not right. 24 May 2004, A House of Commons Committee Room of MPs heard the case for and against TETRA, from various advocates, including O2 Airwave, and TETRAWATCH. Here is John O’Brien’s contribution. Rest assured, the Airwave position lacked credibility. Richard Spring MP, Second Reading of Transmission Masts Bill, Parliament 21 May 2004. Read and send to your MP, who was probably not there and allowed its demise, despite a vote of 10-2 in favour. Protection: New links page on how to protect yourself. TETRAWATCH: The new synergy, representing all the local interests, with centralised resources for all. TETRAWATCH is pressing the case at all levels for a stop to TETRA as an untested technology, as a risk to health, and a poor value-for-money system. Police Consultation Meeting, 19th May, The Venue, Chichester. Your chance to attend and demand consultation over the imposition of untested TETRA was squashed. Rebilled locally as a ‘crime and disorder’ evening, one question on TETRA was allowed and a very misleading answer given, suggesting that TETRA was used by emergency services all over Europe, with no bad effects. This is simply not true. When the very reasonable question of monitoring people’s health around base stations was asked, the chair (Ann Graves, Magistrate Member to Sussex Police Authority) abruptly closed the meeting and refused any answer. Brighton Public TETRA Meeting courtesy of the Green Party. Successful meeting, Friday May 14, 7.30pm, City Gate Centre, London Road, Brighton. Rogate protest: the Planning Inspector insists that TETRA is OK, protesters are not. Rogate turned out, Caroline Lucas MEP joined them to mourn this victory over common sense and the wishes of the population. This time the mast is legal, but still unwanted. Caroline Lucas our Green Party MEP visited Bognor, Arundel and Rogate on 5th May Great news from neighbours Hampshire! ‘Council scuppers police mast plan’ Arundel Group. A meeting at Arundel Town Hall, 27 April, was packed out to raise awareness of TETRA and to share ideas for action. Good luck to Arundel, as we join forces to reject this system. Press release, 20 April 2004 Up and down! Mid April: masts in Worthing, Littlehampton, Bognor, Washington, Arundel have been turned off, on, up and down, and have changed carrier frequencies. Each time the adverse health symptoms change: this is not socially right at all! See our Remote Control page for how it feels. Illegal mast down at Dibden! But read this BBC South Today transcript Essential reading for you and all your friends and neighbours : ‘Making Waves.’ Rachel Shabi reports in The Guardian Weekend, 10 April 2004 more recent News	Hiding behind a barn, TETRA at Lambleys Barn, Lancing, West Sussex.
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