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Mobile phones in schools

Education secretary David Blunkett is to write to all schools setting out health risks and urging that limits be set on pupils’ use of mobile phones to emergencies only. Where a mobile phone base station is nearby, schools are also urged to contact the operator to ensure its ‘beam of greatest intensity’ does not fall across their grounds.

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