High anxiety

Mobile phone masts are proliferating near nurseries and schools, contrary to official advice. Simon Vevers hears the arguments against them Mobile phones have become the must-have accessory for millions of us, including one in four children aged seven to ten. But a consequence of the rapid growth of mobile use has been the peppering of the UK landscape with thousands of mobile phone masts, many of them sited near nurseries, schools and hospitals. They not only are unsightly,...