WE won't give up the fight. That's the message from furious residents who where horrified to find that communications giant O2 had put up a second illegal tetra mast just 20m from an identical mast ordered to be dismantled.

As reported in yesterday's Daily Echo, Airwave O2 put up a 22m high mast, which provides a communications network for the emergency services, in School Close, Chandler's Ford.

It did so despite being ordered by Test Valley Borough Council planning inspectors to take down its first mast just across the road.

As with the first mast, it has put up the mast without permission but will be allowed to retain it for six months under emergency planning laws.

Residents and councillors, who fought for three years to have the first mast taken down, have now been left utterly shocked.

However they have vowed not to let Airwave O2 win and are prepared to go through the same three-year process again to ensure the downfall of the second mast.

Tracey Moore, 35, of Liddel Way, Chandler's Ford, said: "We will not let this company win."

Airwave O2 said that negotiations to find another site had not progressed as far as it had hoped so it had done what it had to do to ensure continual coverage for the emergency services.