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Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 10:04 GMT
Phone company suspends mast plans
Mobile phone company 3G says it is reconsidering its plans to install a mast on top of a hotel in Warwickshire.

Residents in Coleshill have been campaigning against the installation of the mast on top of the Coleshill Hotel in the town's High Street.

They are concerned about possible threats to their health from the mast.

3G has halted work following a meeting with local MP Mike O'Brien. It says the hotel is still the preferred option but it is looking at alternative sites.

Local resident Jackie Slater said: "They say they are considering looking at other sites and I hope that is true.

"I hope they don't come back in three months time and say they are going to stick it back up on the hotel. We want the whole contract to be cancelled."

But a spokesperson for 3G, Verity Stanford, says the company's decision to reconsider is not just a PR exercise.


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