And there’s one issue that should be at the forefront of the candidates’ plans, a charity has said, as thousands of the county’s residents are still exposed to high levels of air pollution. Asthma + Lung UK hosted a hustings event at the University of Leeds earlier this month to call for urgent action. The charity claims over 800,000 people in West Yorkshire, including 56,000 children under six, are exposed to harmful pollution levels well above recommendations from the World Health... Read this story
