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E-Mail Software to help towns and cities use street-planting to reduce citizens exposure to air pollution has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. Street planting, or green infrastructure , is an essential part of the urban realm, but there is a misconception that plants remove or soak up a lot of pollution. Instead, planting at this scale primarily serves to redistribute pollution by changing air currents within streets and beside open roads. Because of this, not only the position and amount of planting within a street, but also the layout and orientation of that street, are critical to its impacts on local air quality. ....
Submitting. He was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where he was treated for a broken left tibia. Pearce pleaded guilty to an amended charge of careless driving when she appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Prosecutor Ross Price told the court Pearce was approaching the Ballencrieff roundabout at around 9.30am on March 12, 2019. Mr Price said Pearce’s vehicle had “clipped the rear wheel” of the bike sending the 39-year-old cyclist crashing to the ground. The court was told police and an ambulance were called and that when quizzed Pearce told officers “I didn t see him”. Defending solicitor Richard Freeman said his client had stopped immediately following the collision and had “physically run over” to help the man. ....