'The car is ingrained into people here': West Midlands faces air pollution crisis

Region contains five of top 10 hotspots outside London for dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution

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The West Midlands is one of the worst hit areas outside the capital for illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution but many don't seem to realise they and their children are breathing some of the UK's most polluted air.

The region is criss-crossed with motorways and dual carriageways churning out NO2 from hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles. The government's own figures show air pollution is responsible for almost 3,000 deaths a year in the West Midlands and in 2015 Birmingham was one of five cities - alongside Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton - ordered to introduce a clean air zone by 2020.