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In today’s edition… Clean Air Day, rewilding, petrol prices, a Twitter fight and Tesla’s Tasermobile!
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Clean Air Day News
DIRTY AIR: In case you missed it, yesterday was Clean Air Day. It’s a day to consider the implications of air pollution and how we can improve it. And it’s not just a whimsical marketing event, it’s extremely serious. Every year, air pollution kills some 36,000 people in the UK alone. You might think that’s not very much when you compare it to people dying of cancer or heart problems (which is around 160,000). But, the crucial difference is air pollution attacks everyone, whatever their age. Unlike diseases that may only come on in later life, dirty air and polluted streets will hurt everyone. And it does. Such as last year when a coroner ruled that a young girl, named Ella Kissi-Debrah, die…
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