RECENTLY a friend of mine, using his mobile phone, called me on my mobile phone to ask for a number that he wanted to ring in order to complain about a mobile phone mast.

This illustrates very nicely the question posed in my letter published in the Citizen June 16, "Why is it that everyone wants to use mobile phones, but nobody wants the masts that make them work?"

It would have been more illuminating if Mrs ME White, as a psychologist, had addressed this question (letters June 23), instead of putting forward a mass of statistics from a recently published study that has not yet been subject to the robust scrutiny of an independent peer review. Such isolated studies have, in the past, been found to be badly flawed.

Mrs White believes everything that Dr Gerd Oberfeld says, but doesn't believe anything that the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection says.

There are now more than fifty million mobiles in use in this country, requiring a lot of masts. Unless the anti-mast campaigners can persuade everyone to stop using their mobiles, they don't stand much chance of success.

Ron Smith

Forrester Close

Leyland.