Red flag for air quality as London breaches pollution limit

Madeleine Cuff
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A month into the New Year, levels of nitrogen dioxide in the capital have breached legal limits on Brixton Road

London has officially broken annual legal limits for air pollution, sparking fresh calls for the government to take urgent action to improve air quality in the UK. According to provisional data released...

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