Activists from Mast Sanity met today in Manchester for what was the largest ever gathering of campaign activists from around the UK. Plans were put in place to ensure a more proactive and coordinated approach to future campaigns. The campaign believes that it is moving into an exciting new era that has seen in the recent past an unprecedented number of local authorities taking a positive stance towards protecting their local residents from the effects of harmful irradiation emmited from phone masts by refusing more applications for base stations than ever before.

The meeting was addressed by newly appointed Mast Sanity Director Lisa Oldham who informed the meeting that over 400 local campaigns had now gained help fom Mast Sanity since it was formed in January 2002 and that a similar number had approached what was the campaigns parent body the Campaign for Planning Sanity. The campaign unanimously thanked CfPS for the help and support that it had received, but agreed that it was time to move forward as an independent body in its own right.

Mast Sanity Director Lisa Oldham said: "I am proud to have received the total support from fellow activists through a unanimouse vote appointing me to the post of the first Director of Mast Sanity. I welcome the task that now lies before us. Since our formation 8 months ago we have helped 100s of local communities to defeat inappropriately sited masts that if erected would have seen the health of thousands of children and adults deteriate as a direct result of the emissions from base stations, our newly structured campaign should enable even greater numbers to gain the help and support they deserve".