RADCLIFFE-based national campaign group, Mast Sanity, has offered to "pay" for a meeting with housing and planning minister Lord Rooker to discuss mobile phone base stations.

Last week Mast Sanity hit the headlines when it revealed that petrol companies were exploiting a loophole to install controversial mobile phone transmitters in garage forecourts.

Mast Sanity chairman Chris Mailes, of Outwood Road, said: "It is time for the Government to sit down with those most affected by base stations, in order that the problems caused by the inappropriate siting of installations can be avoided.

"We want the removal of those installations that are, at present, slipping through the control mechanisms. By inviting the minister to talks, we hope that we can start to move forward in the best interests of all those concerned."

He added: "We are prepared to meet with the minister any time and any place. We are even prepared to fund the meeting. All that we ask of the minister is to name the date."