Mobile phone mast protester Jerry Laurie is fighting back - with the aid of a couple of dustbin lids.

He has hit on the idea of disrupting transmissions by using metal bin lids to reflect signals back to the mast outside his home.

Mr Laurie, a retired chartered surveyor, is leading the fight to get the 15-metre mast at Bath Court, Kingsway, Hove, taken down.

Determined to try anything to get rid of the mast, Mr Laurie has put two lids up outside his sixth-floor flat.

He said: "My neighbour contacted me after reading about my campaign to get the mast removed in The Argus.

"He knows what he is talking about when it comes to transmitting radio signals.

"He told me it should be possible to disrupt transmission from the mast by bouncing its own signals back to it.

"It could cause the same kind of interference you might get if you had a radio on slightly the wrong frequency for the station you were trying to listen to.

"I am willing to have a go at almost anything to get rid of the mast and fixing a couple of lids might do the trick."

Dr Steve Singh, an expert in radio transmissions at the University of Brighton, confirmed it was possible to disrupt signals using reflective material.

Dr Singh, senior lecturer in electronics in the department of engineering, said: "I am not sure that it would work using just a couple of dustbin lids but the principle is the same."

Residents of Bath Court claim they knew nothing about the One2One mast until workmen arrived to put it up.

Mr Laurie has started a legal challenge against Brighton and Hove City Council.

No one from One2One was available for comment.

In response to an earlier story, a spokesman said the company was satisfied it had met all local authority and EU guidelines in connection with the mast.