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This is interesting; I know someone who was with her young child rehoused (in the Liberal-run London Borough of Islington) on the basis it was unhealthy to be living within feet of a mobile phone mast. She produced written advice from medics I understand. Whether that was because the medics recognised that the mother’s anxiety was producing high levels of trauma for mother and child I cannot say, but she got rehoused.

There are also disputed claims that living near high capacity electric powerlines is dangerous. The Times ran a story (in 2000 I think) indicating that data does exist to show that to be close to large electrical installations up for long periods of time is not a healthy activity for human beings. It has been linked to higher incidences of cancer.

My concern is that we are as yet relatively ignorant about all this very new mobile technology we’ve adopted and yet we’ve started to use it everywhere; but we just don’t know the universe well enough yet to be totally certain it is safe. We may not even know what we should be measuring in the first place to check whether it’s safe. Let’s not forget that.