Glastonbury writer Natalie Fee moved home to escape what she regarded as the dangerous effects of radiation emitted from the town's WiFi aerials.

She told me: "Personally, I would like to see the masts removed. Maybe we'll get there one day and, hopefully, it won't be too late."

A week ago, townspeople expressed fears about the wireless internet service – the first in the country when introduced last May on a three-year trial – at a public meeting organised by Somerset County Council at the town hall.

One of the six aerials could be seen from the window in the bedroom of Natalie's son Elliot, aged five, in their house located in the town centre.

Now they live on the edge of Glastonbury, and Natalie supports the town's "No Wi-Fry in Avalon" protest campaign, which she will be promoting at the monthly Mystic and Earth Spirit Fayre in the town on Saturday next week.

"I had a radiation expert come round to take measurements in the house, and he took various readings," she said. "Elliot's bedroom was the highest point in the house, and it was recommended I move his bed and put up screens.

"Quite frankly, I see Glastonbury as a rural town and I don't want my son exposed to that kind of radiation 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because he's also at St John's School which is within the WiFi zone.

"Unless we left the town centre, he wouldn't have got a break from this constant bombardment of low-level pulsed radiation.

"I took the stance of trying to raise awareness and hopefully get it switched off but, at the same time, I had to adopt the precautionary principle myself in relocating to the outskirts of the town where we don't, I'm happy to say, get the WiFi signal."

When the signal was switched on, Natalie found herself suffering from a lack of concentration, palpitations and a "knotted feeling" in her chest. "I'm a writer, so I really noticed my creativity being affected. That was what prompted me to do research and look into the effects of low-level radiation. "What I found was really quite alarming. When I looked at peer-reviewed studies done outside the UK, the concern for me was primarily for my son because I learned that children absorb three times as much radiation as adults because of their thinner skulls."

Many Glastonbury parents were worried, said Natalie, who is now talking to local schools and their governing bodies about alternatives to WiFi which she believes are safer.

She added: "I'm very pro Glastonbury being a technologically advanced place, I'm very pro the internet, I'm just not pro damaging our health at the same time."

Natalie, who is also an empowerment coach, will be available to discuss the WiFi issue at her Weaving Star stall at the fair on Saturday, December 6. Hear her on my Mysterious West podcast, too.