Special constable fined

A special constable in Dorset has been fined £1000 for using the police criminal records database to check out people she worked with at a petrol station.

A study by academics at the university of York says that using hands free kits can reduce the radiation exposure from mobile phones to the head by 47%. They're not saying mobiles are unsafe, just that if anyone is concerned then it would be sensible to use the hands free kit, or as they say, take the precautionary approach. This follows the Britain's National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) recomendation in early January that children should take care when using mobiles, use the phones for as short a time as possible when talking, preferably use them for text rather than speech and use phones with low "specific absorption rates."

There is due to be a conference on 'Children and Young People's Use of Mobile Phones' in London on 8 February.