FEARS a phone mast will be put up on a Warminster residential estate have prompted worried families to take action.

Vodafone is looking for a site to build a 12-metre mast in Woodcock Lane.

The firm has not yet applied for planning permission, but has sent letters to residents outlining its proposals. Local people said they would fight against the mast, which is close to Kingdown Secondary School.

Bill Tyson, 42, of Boreham Field, said: "They have to go somewhere, but right next to a secondary school? When the dangers aren't fully known? "