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Friday, 17 October 2008

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The truth about pollution and Heathrow is coming out. In yesterday’s Evening Standard, Paul Waugh and I revealed that there is a direct connection between government plans to delay the EU air quality directive and the expectation that even a pre-expansion Heathrow will breach it.

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