Bid to Recruit Young Pollution Posse ; a Regional 'Air Force' Is Being Recruite D to Plot Pollution Levels. Environment Editor Tony Henderson Reports.

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FORTY or so years ago, today's handsome honey-coloured buildings in Newcastle's Grainger Town were inky black.

This was the result of air pollution from smokestack industries and the days when most homes had an open coal fire.

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Bid to Recruit Young Pollution Posse ; a Regional 'Air Force' Is Being Recruite D to Plot Pollution Levels. Environment Editor Tony Henderson Reports.

Against this backdrop, Newcastle University botanist Dr Oliver Gilbert embarked in the 1960s on a pioneering study of air pollution in the North East, using l...

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