The Express & Echo’s Shock Waves campaign has come in for some praise in the House of Commons.

The Government was urged to do more to answer key questions on the safety of phone masts – one of the planks of the Devon paper’s push.

Tiverton and Honiton MP Angela Browning raised the campaign during a parliamentary debate, and commended the Echo for putting resources into identifying the nature of phone mast problems.

She said: “I hope that Junior Health Minister Yvette Cooper will take the paper up on its offer to make available to her the full detail of the research by Exeter University and the Express & Echo.”

The campaign began after a Crediton woman’s six-year-old daughter was diagnosed with leukaemia three years after a phone mast was installed near her home.

It is calling on the Government to accept reduced emission guidelines suggested by the Stewart Report into health and planning issues of phone masts.