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Professor Clive Hawkins, a clinical neurologist at Keele University Medical School and the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, who has treated Nancy, said: “There is good reason to believe that the electro-magnetic current disturbs the barrier between blood and brain, and blood and spinal cord.

“This is an important part of MS, the barrier breaks down and so proteins and antibodies enter the spinal cord or brain and cause inflammation.”

The Sentinel

5th November, 2009

DISABLED Nancy Watts lives in a bungalow covered in steel mesh after claiming a mobile phone mast at the end of her garden has left her in a wheelchair.

Former IT consultant Nancy, aged 54, spends most of her time confined to a tiny room at the back of her home to try to avoid the mast just 20ft from her front window.

Fears over electro-magnetic currents from the mast mean Nancy and husband Phillip, aged 56, have spent £1,500 protecting the building with ground-to-roof cladding.

Their small back room has also been converted into a ‘Faraday cage’, covered wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling in steel mesh sheets, to block out all electrical currents and they sleep under a mesh tent above their bed.

Nancy has had Multiple Sclerosis (MS) since 1985 and suffered only three relapses in 11 years.

But after moving to Ashley Heath, near Loggerheads, in 1996 she began suffering several relapses a year and has been in a wheelchair since 2001. Mobile phone companies started using the existing electricity pylon in late 1996 for their transmitters.

She said: “There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the mast has caused these complications.

“Having to live with metal mesh around us is devastating.”

Nancy says she cannot spend more than a couple of hours outside the cage without feeling disorientated

DISABLED Nancy Watts lives in a bungalow covered in steel mesh after claiming a mobile phone mast at the end of her garden has left her in a wheelchair.

Former IT consultant Nancy, aged 54, spends most of her time confined to a tiny room at the back of her home to try to avoid the mast just 20ft from her front window.

Fears over electro-magnetic currents from the mast mean Nancy and husband Phillip, aged 56, have spent £1,500 protecting the building with ground-to-roof cladding.

Their small back room has also been converted into a ‘Faraday cage’, covered wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling in steel mesh sheets, to block out all electrical currents and they sleep under a mesh tent above their bed.

Nancy has had Multiple Sclerosis (MS) since 1985 and suffered only three relapses in 11 years.

and losing feeling in her limbs.

Her husband complains of electro-sensitivity, which causes him pain.

Professor Clive Hawkins, a clinical neurologist at Keele University Medical School and the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, who has treated Nancy, said: “There is good reason to believe that the electro-magnetic current disturbs the barrier between blood and brain, and blood and spinal cord.

“This is an important part of MS, the barrier breaks down and so proteins and antibodies enter the spinal cord or brain and cause inflammation.”