Try to. Decide. If you make. Between now and 6 o'clock at the story this hour. Taxis and. I hasten to add could be charged for driving through 4. Busiest roads now the authorities looking at setting up a cleaner to reduce emissions. Comply. A charge will be levied similar to London's low emissions now the council's identified 4 areas where there are high levels of nitrogen dioxide Miller's bridge in Hawthorne road in vocal Princess Wei in level and and south road in Waterloo while Dr Gary Fuller is an air pollution scientist that King's College London and is author of the invisible killer the rising global threat of pollution and how we can fight back he advised London on setting up its low emission zone and joins me now very good afternoon to you Dr Fuller Hello Paul Well 1st of all then how big is the threat of air pollution from vehicles. Air pollution is really quite a serious health to those with living in urban areas estimated around 2000 people are dying early here in the u.k. From breathing bad air I mean it's that's actually quite a high number I'm sure if the water that was coming out of our taps was you know bringing about the sort of impact on our health there will be outcry but somehow for pollution we seem to accept a bit more yeah why struggling with a little bit with this idea and I know you don't particularly know this area that we're talking about the poor which talking about but why would one road be so much worse than another when they're in such close proximity I live in the area so I it's mystify me a little bit. I don't know about the actual area or the loads but. Loads one vote can be worse than another for reasons that can be because the type of traffic that travels along and this is a road that's going to inform the talks have a lot of heavy goods vehicles it can also be worse than other areas if it's in close stores in an area where the air pollution just doesn't blow away I mean I thought vehicles were going to be getting cleaner are they not oh well we all thought vehicles were getting cleaner and so. So ventilations around Volkswagen a couple of years ago yes vehicles on getting cleaner. And especially the new ones and that we really is what the law emissions are and that's kind of how it works because what you do is you would try to discourage older more polluting vehicles from traveling on the road and encourage their replacement with newer less polluting vehicles so the London low emissions are one is not quite a big part of in the London or is it is not taken on certain roads as well. Yeah the London low emissions uncovers the whole area of greater London but in the sense are a few square kilometers around Westminster and the City Jail is recently introduced it's all true a lot of missions out and the impacts of being really quite dramatic we think the night Sion dioxide which is the pollution you're concerned about there in Bootle and Sefton as well as drops by about 29 percent but it's not just happens it doesn't just happen overnight when the wind starts flee operators and people will you using buses taxis will upgrading their vehicles before hand but 29 percent is really quite dramatic improvement Yeah it is all thank you very much for talking to me I don't follow. My pleasure. Dr Gary full Appalachian scientists at King's College in London one of the roads you mentioned I was south road in Waterloo our reporter has been along there and asked people that if they you know I would think being charge for a clean as own is a good idea I said because the law says and I'm sorry have to come down and it's a busy road so yeah I would not any problems with you know worried that perhaps they'll pay it but put the basil also the other. I don't use public transport senses just drive all grown I'm from so it's probably I'm a little bit biased not respectable I mean ending for the environment so it's a good thing so I believe anyway I'm not sure this touches on everything these days is unless to try and reduce things I think there needs to be more responsibility of manufacturers of vehicles to reduce emissions I would be in favor of it because I'm a local resident just lives off south road and I know how difficult it is have sent me a pic times when they have your love is come down it's not suitable to have it always sort of a lot because those lorries taxis so forth will just find alternative routes. And stop coming down here so the emissions will be transferred from us they don't drive on their phone they have to got in from a to b. They have to do it somehow if you close this road up or make too expensive go just go another way why is it no good idea how am I supposed streets personality people around here and the. Buses in the taxis the value safest and I don't think if that happens the property wouldn't come along and I think it's a rather good idea I mean there's a lot of pollution just too much pollution I think in the said he especially at weekends as well the kids in this area out of all people so I think we shall improve the environment generally is a good thing I think you're a taxi driver you or your company could be charged extra for coming into South really got to clean a fair fair call like it's not bad light but I don't the diesel saw. Me Cadbury would like to get a cheaper kit. Well the vote could you know say to you your party is going to cost you an excerpt x. Amount more to go this route or these I don't think so enough they're going to be paid more like money is a. Little thing so you think people like you could be put at a disadvantage you could be. You could lose cost them over to really quite a few comments David Crosby imagine all the chaos on the narrow side roads as drivers try to find alternative routes to avoid the proposed tolls Insaf to bail in height and this solution plan is a scam it's purely I'm a method of grabbing more money from road users and one hears while filling Crosby says he's seen lots of cars with just one person and can they put in place a car sharing scheme which would mean less cars on the road and less pollution your music your stories your like b.b.c. Radio Mazie some. 16 minutes past fine for a wind the weather wasn't been so bad today I wasn't looking to now I'm going I'm going the match tonight I'm going to be Ok you yeah you should be all right well one thing I would recommend is maybe a scarf or an extra layer cause have you got any of that with you one know what I'm going straight there from you couldn't you put it texted me earlier on the Tell Me I thought we were friends I whine Well actually I did say in last night's forecast of the real You've got me there. And I hope I didn't have to listen back to it now actually just make sure. It is going to be turned in colder this evening if you're heading out at about pole we need an extra layer this is because you're pulling in much colder air from the north at the moment and actually will hang on to this over the coming days it should be mostly dry overnight temperatures getting down to about 3 South us around town so cold with the mist and fog patches forming just the shower here or there a cold start to the day for us tomorrow some of the mist and fog slow to clear we may see a frost in places but tomorrow morning should be dry and actually should brighten up a bit as well with some so. The spells heavy showers are likely to move in from the west then as we head through the afternoon they should clear and it will dry up a bit as we head through towards Thursday but heavy rain is forecast as we move through the 2nd half of those day we're keeping an eye on this one but it does look like we could see the disruption as a result and I will always listen to you from the I'm a listener anyway but especially from now on I will always listen to. B.b.c. Radio travel just like we always listen to out for the latest on the roads even salt water on Crosby road north because it is ongoing roadworks now to South roll Valse got works ahead on the floor slowing things down in either direction approaching the traffic lights little bit busy road near an airport road foreclosed there following an accident later Greenfield avenue that does mean there's a diversion for you to follow and still slow northbound of the m 619 and those for through 20 want to craft any rubbish have the number you need on 5 want 794953 and Shepard b.b.c. Radio most He's our travel. Your voice your story I described. It this way. Absolutely. I know you know. How do you. Think you can. Absolutely. 12. With c.b.c. Radio. But more breaking sports news to bring you here at the top them forward as how does red card against have a turn for the challenge on trade go. Overturned by an independent panel so he won't be serving any challenge on question today on this day in 1932 Gillespie Road underground station changed its name what did it become welcome to Kevin and mystic you gain or any An unholy like James in can't. Be in hi Neal and how you don't Brian and I chill Kim in Warrington Dave in chill wall Terry and mostly hail Stephen Weygand David Crosby also and Bill on the email Gillespie Road London Underground station became. London Underground station they changed the name of the station because it was right by a hybrid that you go. To . The. Time. And changes his nearly 24 minutes past 5 b.b.c. Radio Merseyside Let's move on to more the day's news now and it's bonfire and I'm sure you're aware of that and while many of us might be wanting to go and enjoy some fireworks and sparklers it's one of the busiest nights of year of course for the emergency services but government figures show the number of firefighters working on Merseyside has fallen to a wreck Orde Low Well joining me in the studio now is Mark Rowe who is the Northwest regional secretary for the Fire Brigades Union a Very Good afternoon Mark and. Just put into context and if you can how bad are the figures well from 2010 to date we've lost a significant amount of our firefighters we've gone from 9275 fighters to 6 $142.00 firefighters and that equates to a fair 2 percent course in firefighter numbers. Just to try and put into some context how does that compare with the national picture Well a lot worse off nationally. With the courts as a consequence of the 1st of all the coalition governments and then the Conservative governments. Nationally some have been able to ride the storm a little bit better because their costs to the. Revenue support grants haven't been as severe side o.d.s. Sort of 52 percent cuts to the revenue support grounds which is as I'm sure views the listeners with will agree is a significant cause and when when you look at the amount of calls you getting of a they going down is this proportionate at all well the government mislead because what they say is 5 calls are going down henceforth we can cost $5.00 Pfizer numbers but we are a multi rescue agency and if you look at me as you cite for instance we've got the sports stadiums the theaters the cinemas the nightclubs the most always the train network the airport the docks and ships when we've got one of the highest densities of elderly persons homes and we've got the highest student population in the country so we've got significant risk. Regularly is it not the case though that I mean a lot of services like yourselves are operating with with fewer staff I mean policing will be one that springs to mind is not some some in some ways down to more efficient ways of working Well what we've done is firefighter now go out and conduct home fire safety visits and we do proactive community fire safety work in the communities but if you caught the amount of firefighters you'd also cause in the available amount of firefighters to go out and continue that where fire deaths of 4 and because of the where the fire fights of dawn in the communities we're now seeing an increase in fire fights sorry in deaths in the public a 10 percent nationally bought it increased for instance side significantly from 2000 and Sam and 11 when we had 555 that 220-1516 or 16 fired at him as he sighed You know what's this doing for for morale of the workforce in the press you know I mean obviously. Members are under a great deal of pressure Well morale is an all time low to be honest I mean because of the pay restraints as well $5.00 faces I've seen a $4000.00 pounds pay course over recent years. It means that we take longer to get to fires because of the course because of the closure the fire stations we see less firefighters on fire engines and as we've seen 40 fire engines call to to 30 fire engines it means that firefighters when they get there are less able to deal with the fire as the as we used to be and we just seen a report come out over the 1st part of the report on Grand Final Now I know that doesn't concern Merseyside but it kind of has a knock on effect going back to the morale does it not because it makes a lot of people I think feel that the firefighters who braved you know the conditions and I have been criticized Yeah I mean the report itself the union clearly disagree with with some of the find as we want to get to the bottom of what happened we want to find out what happened but our view is that the deregulation building materials standards and also the this pursuit of profit led to ground fell firefighters have been blamed for Graham for well you know in Merseyside we've seen how the establishment reacts we've seen how long the talk was to get justice for Hillsborough we've seen Orgreave as well on the 1st source of response of the establishment is always to blame those involved rather than blame those responsible good speaking with thanks very much for coming in Mark b.b.c. Radio Merseyside 28 minutes past 5 is the time. Sigrid there with don't feel like crying it's 531. News headlines now from Philmont h. T.V.'s buses and taxis could soon be charged for driving on certain roads in Sept and it's a proposal to try and cut air pollution along the area's busiest routes a group of M.P.'s say they could end up supporting a ban on fireworks sales to the public if the government doesn't take action to tackle irresponsible use That's according to a report released by the Petitions Committee today headed up by Warrington North m.p. Helen Jones' 137 stop searches by police following recent shootings across Merseyside last nice and have led to 8 arrests drugs cash and weapons were seized and a special plaque is being unveiled at a Grade 2 listed building in Prescott that was used as a barracks for Liverpool Powells in World War One that's all for now I'll have a full update for you at 6. B.b.c. Radio and I side travel how we doing on those roads Let's find out now with our Chaput even Solti delays if you reckon the journey on through be near the airport road or Manning course because of an accident into greenfields avenue that means a diversion that would sort of slow on the northbound side of the m 6 through Cheshire education 19 in the us for it it's $21.00 aircrafts saw again allowed every dish time to get through there elsewhere most of our route too and I would expect really nothing to out the ordinary just a bit busy around was away on a Court Road north of us on the road works in a to south road and is rubbish have the number you need so 151-794-9538 chap at b.b.c. Radio most trouble. Has been a bit of an afternoon for breaking news has it not James mile for. News on the way of Liverpool's League Cup date away of Aston Villa and what that means for them. The fee for World Club Cup as well but 1st of all this is broken in the last half an hour or so the reg card handed out to top $1.00 strike a song for his challenge on Everton's Andre Gomes at the weekend's been rescinded Gomes was discharged from hospital today following surgery on a broken and dislocated ankle Tottenham appealed against the card handed out by referee Martin Atkinson and the Football Association have upheld a claim of wrongful dismissal for Gomez Everton say he's now under the care of their medical team but they haven't put a timescale on go Mr recovery some meanwhile is now free to play in Tottenham the next 3 games Liverpool face the unusual scenario of fielding 2 different teams within 24 hours for games in 2 continents it's after Liverpool's League Cup quarter final tie away at Aston Villa has been set for Tuesday the 17th of December and that's 24 hours before game in the Club World Cup in Qatar now Liverpool say they were used to separate playing squads for each game they say other dates were discussed but shuttling issues and putting undue strain on the players meant they weren't suitable there is football tonight is the 1st of 2 big home games in the space of 5 days for Liverpool with a Champions League game against the ceiling and then on Sunday of course Manchester City arriving in the Premier League tonight the Liverpool manager you can Klopp says it's vital they focus on the game against the Belgian champions rather than think about the title race the story the boys wrote If you want in the last 3 years it was only possible because we always focus on the next game completely with all we have nobody things in this moment I don't have to tell them I know them city's on Sunday so we have big ambitions in this competition and it's an open group still pretty much everything possible so we have to we have to be 100 percent spot on it's an 8 o'clock kick off and Phil will be live from there after 6 o'clock tonight the. Other match in the group Seeds Napoli at home to Red Bull Salzburg and go county could return for Chelsea in their group h. Game at home to i.x. Which also starts at 8 earlier today Liverpool's Under nineteen's felt for one mill home defeat to gangs in the u.a.e. For youth league that was played at the Kirby Academy the goal came in the 93rd minute it leaves Liverpool on 7 points after 4 games their level with and Salzburg in their group Napoli have just one point the saving Everton's Under 20 one's go to Crewe in the northern group 8 of the trophy Prescott cables are away at Pickering town in an f.a. Trophy 1st qualifying round replay in Robey league Great Britain have been forced into changing their starting 13 for the 2nd Test against New Zealand in Christchurch on Saturday Ryan Hall misses the game with injury week and Zac heartache will play on the wing for the 1st time in 8 years Warrington Jack Hughes makes his international debut in the centers that's away from his usual back row position and saints forward Luke Thomson misses the game with a rib injury but he's hoping to be ready for the final turn going against New Guinea the new Super League fixtures came out today Warrington Wigan on the opening match of the season which is Thursday the 30th of January sent Hellens begin the defense of their title the following nights there at home to solve 3rd in a repeat of last season's grand final and in round 2 Warrington host Saints at the Harley Well Jones on Thursday the 6th of February a New Zealand star Sonny Bill Williams set to join Super League newcomers Toronto wolves back on a 2 year deal this is interesting because Williams played for New Zealand at the Rugby Union World Cup and he's now agreed a multi-million pound deal to return to rugby league Merseyside sports here from 6 quite a lot to talk about and we're live from field ahead of tonight's action love you Allison will talk to a sports science expert on dray Gomes injury Cheers joins us. Still Dire Straits and money for nothing were talking about fireworks earlier and I said I hate bonfire night and early on Lodge Lane as says I agree with you 110 percent they are dangerous the firework is called the cause of a lot of problems for the elderly and animals last year my brother's dog was terrified to go out I don't know what some people are thinking they are miniature bombs not fireworks and on the car emissions owns Peter and West RB says in a round 2015 they said