HEALTH campaigners say toxic air quality in the UK is a national emergency and the Government must impose stricter limits on airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which come mainly from the burning of oil, gas and diesel. The calls have been heightened after a coroner, while ruling that air pollution was a cause of the death of a nine-year-old girl in London, stated there was no safe level of PM2.5, adding WHO guidelines should be seen as minimum requirements . Figures from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs show the average concentration of PM2.5 pollution particles in Powys was 6.6 micrograms per cubic metre in 2019 – below the UK limit of 25 and the WHO guideline limit of 10.
Plastic bags set to double in price to 10p from 5p in all shops this month
The plastic bag charge is set to double from 5p to 10p as of May 21, the government has confirmed. The new charge will apply to all shops in the country later this month
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Plastic bags will go up in price from May 21 (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
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An award-winning British cheesemaker has abandoned sales to the European Union because of the £180 cost of post-Brexit paperwork.
Hartington Creamery in Pikehall, Derbyshire is seeking to replace European sales with exports to the United Sates and Canada.
Before Brexit, the cheese manufacturer faced no red tape when exporting to the European Union.
It comes as exports of UK goods to the European Union dropped by more than forty per cent in January as Britain and Brussels began their post-Brexit trading relationship.
New data published this morning by the Office for National Statistics revealed that the overall export of goods fell by £5.3billion - some 19.3 per cent - in the first month of the year.