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School children breathe in more particles during the morning drop-off

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Children face around three times more air pollution during the morning drop-off than throughout the rest of the day, due to cars idling outside the school gates.  Levels of ultra-fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5, which are emitted from the exhaust pipes of vehicles lined up to drop off children in the morning, were found to … Read more

Elderly ‘coronavirus victim’ struggling to breathe when nurse saved him from car crash has died

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A 73-year-old man has died from coronavirus after being taken to the hospital by a mental health nurse, whose car he crashed into while making a desperate attempt to get food following ten days in isolation. The elderly man, who has not been named, was delirious and grey-faced when he bumped cars with Lucy Duncan, 24, … Read more

Fit-and-healthy gym-goer, 39, struggles to breathe from coronavirus

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A fit-and-healthy mother who struggled to breathe after being infected with coronavirus has issued a stark warning to fellow Britons to ‘not take any chances’. Tara Jane Langston, 39, filmed herself with her phone in the intensive care unit at Hillingdon Hospital in west London pleading with others to take the deadly COVID-19 seriously. She was … Read more

British people breathe equivalent of one cigarette a day because of air pollution, doctors warn

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British people are breathing in the equivalent of one cigarette a day because of air pollution, a leading doctor has warned. The Government is now being begged by two royal medical colleges to do more to tackle the public health crisis, which is shortening thousands of people’s lives. The Royal College of Physicians and Royal … Read more