Hundreds of head teachers are trialing bans on school runs as claims arise that car fumes are reaching “illegally high” levels outside the gates.
And it is thought thousands more are due to follow suit, with campaigners fighting to make it a nationwide rule.
The fumes have been linked to soaring asthma cases
Rosamund Kissi-Debrah’s nine-year-old daughter Ella died of a fatal asthma attack in 2013.
However, after new evidence emerged on air pollution, Kissi-Debrah has been granted the right to ask the High Court to order a new inquest into Ella’s death by attorney general Geoffrey Cox.
LONDON — Dirty air kills millions of people around the world every year, but it can be hard to put a face on a danger so vast. Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is fighting to do just that. The face she has in mind is her daughter’s.
ONE in three people live in an area with dangerously high levels of air pollution, shocking research reveals today. Millions of us are exposed to potentially harmful levels of toxic air across the majority of England, a study shows.
The family of nine-year-old Ella Roberta have been allowed to apply for a new inquest into the wrongful death of their daughter.