Comments on: Street protest over mast plans

By: gb

gb — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:32:59 +0000

it seems very strange these people protestinging about mobile masts when they are allowing there own children to use their mobiles at the side of there brain, which are producing up 1 million times more radiation .

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By: Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:02:51 +0000

Mr J should ask Michael Gwynne, the Telford Coroner, if he can look at the register of suspicious deaths. Mr J could then eat his words when he sees the addresses of the suicides.

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By: jane

jane — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:45:38 +0000

I wish people would stop using the arguement that if you use a mobile phone you should put up with a mast in your back garden. There are very few places you can’t get coverage, so why put up more. There are plenty of areas they can go away from homes and schools. We all coped for years without them, it’s not the end of the world if you can’t send a text, but it is terrible that some people have experienced ill health due to these masts.

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By: K Jones

K Jones — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:37:56 +0000

CB, the Bicton site did not offer full coverage for the police services. The blackspot is in the Bicton Heath/Gains park area. The mast On Calcott lane would have been in a dip, which makes no sense at all. The site at Corner Farm is perfect, offers the correct coverage and isn’t anywhere near peoples homes. Surely this is the best solution alround.

The police federations own report, written by B Trower says there are serious problems with TETRA and masts should not be sited by people and schools. Maybe all those shouting ‘nimby’ should read that first.

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By: spencer

spencer — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:27:35 +0000

michael
Straight on the offensive with insults and aggression, anyone would think you lived near a power station.
good luck with your political career.

regards
Spencer

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By: mick

mick — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:48:36 +0000

oh dear it looks like that we are all doomed to die in telford from PM2.5 from the ironbridge power station. More chance of being killed by PMT!!

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By: marco

marco — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:14:39 +0000

CB: My mother has smoked for upwards of 50 years and she is celebrating her 78th birthday next month. By you logic there are therefore no ill effects associated with smoking!

For years the industry did claim this, just as the industry is now claiming that there is nothing wrong with these high powered radio masts!

Where there is smoke there is fire!

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By: mr j

mr j — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:23:59 +0000

Michael Ryan get a life, the power station has nothing to do with suicide, Iv lived in ironbridge in a B+B right infront of the power station, and its fine down there.

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By: Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:52:08 +0000

If Spencer asks Telford & Wrekin PCT for a copy of their 2004 public health report, he’ll see a graph showing the suicide rate with a huge increase projected.

If he saw my Shropshire Star letter of 17 June 2008, he’ll have seen that Professor Richard Weisler, a psychiatrist at the University of North Carolina, found two separate suicide clusters that were both linked to sources of industrial PM2.5 air pollution, ie toxic particles smaller than 3 microns in diameter that are small enough to get deep into the lungs and cause a range of illnesses, including asthma, stroke, depression, COPD, heart attack, cancers, diabetes 2, etc.

Professor Weisler hadn’t been looking for suicide clusters, he’d been wondering why his mother had died of lung cancer, despite the fact that she’d not smoked for more than thirty years. He found a cluster of cancers first and then got the suicide statistics and plotted the locations on a map and “Hey presto” it was the same cluster which “just happened to be” around an asphalt plant.

The second N Carolina suicide cluster found by Professor Weisler only occurred after a paper mill stopped discharging waste residues into a watercourse and began incinerating them instead.

If Spencer has been awake for the last twelve months or so, he’ll know that the world’s first online suicide occurred in Shropshire in March 2007 and that there have been many other sudden unexplained deaths.

The PM2.5 emissions from Ironbridge power station will be increasing the depression rates in parts of Telford and as the chimney stack is 670 feet high, they’ll reach well into Staffordshire where Gnosall is only fifteen miles away with a SW wind.

If The Samaritans put out a press release that air pollution might be a link with suicides in Bridgend, or Telford, or anywhere else, you can always say that you read about it in the Shropshire Star first.

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By: CB

CB — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:50:17 +0000

Having worn analogue and digital radios next to my torso for over 30 yrs did not have any noticable effect on me.
I just wonder what the people of Bicton would do if a police officer refused to enter the area due to insufficient radio coverage having carried out a generic risk assessment, if they don’t consider it safe there isn’t anybody that can do anything about it,remember officers have families they want to return home to also.
It may be a sad case of the residents reaping what they have sown. I hope not, but it may just happen.

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By: spencer

spencer — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:42:45 +0000

i read your email micheal, and what has the south telford suicide rate got to do with living near a power station…

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By: Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:35:15 +0000

Will any police officer comment about the fact that tumours have been detected where radio devices have been carried next to their bodies?

It could all be a strange coincidence of course, but it’s worth investigation.

Maybe the police have already carried out investigations & blamed something else?

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By: colin nimby

colin nimby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:26:38 +0000

putting it in bicton is fine by me, so long as you don’t put it in my back yard

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By: devon salopian

devon salopian — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:35:43 +0000

you appear to have a very handy mp up there, during a wet afternoon, i watched the parliament program, it was a bit like watching paint dry until daniel got up and mentioned shropshire 10 times in 3 seperate speeches. well done daniel nice to see local representation of the people in action. if this mast is for the emergency services, what is the problem,

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By: Son

Son — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:00:43 +0000

I demonstrated against the TETRA mast last saturday because I believe masts should require FULL planning permission and not simply be erected willy-nilly.Currently the process is NOT democratic.
An EXISTING site IS available that fulfills all criteria re: coverage etc.AND lies well away from homes and schools. If they had been forced to follow normal planning rules then the mast would have been sited there already!

WM police and fire services should point this out to their supplier, Airwave.(n.b. Shropshire Ambulance is not currently subscribed to O2Airwave)

Incidentally, the Home Office quotes Airwave has cost £2.9 Billion. I suspect this would have been better spent direct into the NHS. No point being taken from a crash scene/assault to find the hopsital under equipped, under staffed and teaming with superbugs!

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By: mark davies

mark davies — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:19:19 +0000

nimby’s the lot of them, this is madness, we need that mast

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:27:23 +0000

What’s this got to do with mobile phones, 3G etc ? The way I read it, it was a mast for Airwave TETRA which is the radio system for the Emergency Services

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By: Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:16:31 +0000

Has Mr J of Dawley noticed poor air quality due to emissions from Ironbridge power station?

He can read my e-mail to David Wright MP about Ironbridge at ukhr.org

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By: idon'tbelieveit

idon'tbelieveit — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:08:52 +0000

Is there actually a lack of coverage n te Bicton area? If there was a situation where there was no coverage i could understand the issue but honestly I don’t think there is !
Until the dangers are disproved definitely these should not be sited near to childrens developing bodies.

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By: Rpt Barrington-Black

Rpt Barrington-Black — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:49:07 +0000

perhaps the MP ought to consider 2 things,

First, it was his party that created this situation by the sell off by auction of the 3g technology with the associated need for the masts.

Secondly this mast is required for policing purposes not public mobile phone communications.

So does he,

1, oppose his party’s previous policy on mobile communications.

2, oppose the police having efficient working communications to enable a service to be delivered to the Shropshire public.

or is this just another bandwagon he has jumped on without thinking?

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