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Highways England steps in to improve toxic air in Dorset village
Highways England is to impose a permanent 30mph speed limit in a village suffering high air pollution after a trial achieved an improvement.
Last year Friends of the Earth named Chideock Hill as experiencing the worst air pollution in England, with annual average level of 97.7ug/m3 of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) against a legal limit of 40ug/m3.
Chideock has been identified as an Air Quality Management Area by Dorset Council. Highways England said that, working closely with the local authority, it initiated a trial speed limit along a section of the A35 at the western end of the village in September 2019.
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COLOURFUL DISPLAY: The colourful piece by Maxnie Fry highlights the importance of creativity when utilising textiles for art.
MILLICENT Gallery will welcome back textile artists Suzanne Gummow, Maxine Fry, Kerrie Head and Jenny Bates this weekend for their innovative exhibition The Tree of Us +1.
The exhibition, which opens 2pm Sunday, depicts versions of loved landscapes and seeks to remind observers of places where interest, beauty, and connection with nature can be found.
Council libraries and gallery manager Janice Nitschke encouraged visitors to view the creative exhibition.
“Suzanne Gummow, Maxine Fry and Jenny Bates’s textile art is synonymous with the Geltwood Festival and their works have been exhibited nationally,” Ms Nitschke said.
Committing to bolder clean air laws would be a “game-changer”, campaigners have said in the wake of a coroner’s report into the death of a nine-year-old girl after exposure to toxic air.
The Government is under pressure to introduce new legal targets for dangerous air pollution known as particulate matter that are in line with World Health Organisation guidelines.
The coroner in the case of Ella Kissi-Debrah, who died from a fatal asthma attack after being exposed to toxic air for years, has said national limits were set far higher than WHO guidelines.
In a prevention of further deaths report, assistant coroner Philip Barlow said legal targets in line with the guidelines would reduce the number of deaths from air pollution in the UK, and the Government should take action on the issue.