'The Manchester street the 10th most polluted in the country'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester's Market Street has been named one of the most polluted high streets in the country according to recent data. A study by GRIDSERVE found the city centre street had 7.6 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter of air (µg/m3).
The World Health Organisation’s recommended annual level of air pollution is 5µg/m3. It comes as 76 per cent of high streets in the UK's largest towns and cities were found to exceed the recommended limit - with Stoke-on-Trent being named the worst. READ MORE: 'My son has planned his own funeral...
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then claimed he was fast asleep Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle, Leicester, Coventry, Hull and Bradford all had over double the recommended limit.
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