CANCER AND RADIO
TRANSMISSION LINKED

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THE DAILY MAIL
MAY 31st, 2002, London Issue, UK

'CANCER TOWN IN
WIN OVER U.S.'

A SMALL town in Germany won a case against
the U.S. government that links radio transmitters
and high cancer rates.

INHABITANTS OF VALLEY, NEAR MUNICH, BLAME
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION FROM POWERFUL
U.S. TRANSMITTERS IN THE AREA FOR THE TOWN'S
HIGH RATES OF CANCER.   NEARLY ONE IN TWO
LOCAL PEOPLE SUFFERS FROM THE DISEASE.

The U.S. Radio Liberty towers transmit programmes
to Eastern Europe and central Asia.

After local authorities failed to act, the town petitioned
the Federal District Court in Washington DC for the
broadcaster to be removed. The German parliament
took notice and has promised not to renew Radio
Liberty's lease when it expires in 2005.
 
 

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Daily Express, UK, 2002
'PHONE MAST FATHER
DIES AFTER VICTORY'
By Kathy Moran
 

A FATHER of three who developed a brain
tumour while campaigning against the mobile
phone mast outside his home has died only
weeks after winning his battle.
 

Neil Clarkson, 65, and wife Trudy fought for 4 years
to force Vodafone to remove the 16-metre mast which
overshadowed their house and their lives. The former
guitar teacher died six weeks after celebrating the news
that planning inspectors had ruled the mast "materially
harmed their living conditions" and must be removed.

Trudy, 57, said: "Neil told me we'd put the flags out
the day the mast was removed. Now he won't be here
to see it. I intend to keep on fighting these masts
because it's what Neil would have wanted."
 

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Daily Mail, UK - Friday, March 1, 2002

ARE PHONE MASTS THE
CANCER STREET CURSE?
By James Chapman and James Orr
 

SCIENTISTS are checking mobile phone
masts in a road dubbed 'Cancer Street'.
 

Five people in Carnarvon Road, East London, have
developed the disease in the last seven years. All live
within 30 yards of a three-storey building with 16 phone
masts on its roof. Now Redbridge Council has called in
experts from the National Radiological Protection Board
to measure radiation in the street.

The £3,250 study could have important implications for
people living near the tens of thousands of masts that
have sprung up across the UK. Growing numbers of people
are blaming their microwave radiation for health problems
and some scientists believe there may be a link, although
there is no direct evidence yet.

The Carnarvon Street victims live in the group of houses
nearest to the masts, which first appeared in 1995. One of
them, retired art teacher and painter Constance Nash, 80,
was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.

She said yesterday: 'There is no history of cancer in
my family and I think there could be a link with the masts.'

A council spokesman said: 'The problem is that we cannot
refuse planning applications for masts on health grounds.
'The current law means companies can put a mast up and
only have to inform us. We then have 56 days to refuse
the application.'
 

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Inhabitants of Valley, near Munich, blame
electromagnetic radiation from powerful
U.S. Transmitters in the area for the town's
high rates of cancer.  Nearly one in two
local people suffers from the disease.