Air pollution: London mayor backs new inquest into girl's asthma death
by Matthew Taylor Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#3WXKA)
Khan writes to attorney general over girl who died during spikes in nitrogen dioxide
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has written to the attorney general asking him to back a new inquest into the death of a nine-year-old girl whose severe asthma attacks coincided with spikes in air pollution.
The mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah has fought a long campaign to highlight the role she believes illegal air pollution played in her daughter's death in 2013.
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