'Euro smog' hits South Coast

AIR pollution levels are expected to return to a low level today after the South Coast was hit by “Euro smog.”

Contaminated clouds which drifted across the English Channel on Tuesday were blamed for high levels of air pollution.

It was so bad this week it triggered advice to people with lung and heart problems to cut down on outdoor activities.

A Defra spokeswoman said pollution levels, which are affected by weather conditions, were expected to return to a low level today after the alert.

It comes just two months after a gas leak at a factory in France is caused a massive stink across the south of England.

In January Dorset Fire and Rescue Service received numerous calls reporting the smell of gas from across the Bournemouth conurbation with parents of pupils at Kinson Primary School asked to collect their children early due to the whiff.

Comments(15)

BIGTONE says...
1:41pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Yea see.......Let our Government charge us a fortune for "Green living and air" then let the French kill us with their pollution. They done it with the Exocets

woby_tide says...
2:43pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Another good reason for the windfarm. Some giant fans to blow everything back to France

l'anglais says...
3:57pm Thu 7 Mar 13

BIGTONE wrote:
Yea see.......Let our Government charge us a fortune for "Green living and air" then let the French kill us with their pollution. They done it with the Exocets
OK, we'll keep our pollution, as long as you stop sending Boat loads of tourists.

Lord Spring says...
4:15pm Thu 7 Mar 13

woby_tide wrote:
Another good reason for the windfarm. Some giant fans to blow everything back to France
Where do you get the electric from to power these windfarms on day like today.

harrythered says...
4:21pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Lord Spring wrote:
woby_tide wrote:
Another good reason for the windfarm. Some giant fans to blow everything back to France
Where do you get the electric from to power these windfarms on day like today.
Very simple, from the French nuclear reactors. they export it to us!!! One thing is for sure wind power won't do it.

woby_tide says...
4:51pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Lord Spring wrote:
woby_tide wrote:
Another good reason for the windfarm. Some giant fans to blow everything back to France
Where do you get the electric from to power these windfarms on day like today.
From a new form of power. Fuelled entirely by dead seabirds and the tears of tourists upset at the view

Ebb Tide says...
4:58pm Thu 7 Mar 13

I do wonder why the reliability of the tidal flow patterns are not harnessed in some way. Also the UK advocates micro-hydro-power schemes to poorer countries (to generate electricity) but when did we last get a crop of salespeople trying to sell us any such thing ? Have the water and river authorities been tackled for any such schemes instead ? - they must have a lot of gravity driven water power that could be harnessed.

Subsidising water power mustt be a better deal for those of us that are still able to pay our electricity bills that
subsidise the windtowers.

Telscombe Cliffy says...
6:13pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Was at the beach on Tuesday, you could see the haze of pollution over the channel in th afternoon

Ebb Tide says...
7:34pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Was at the beach on Tuesday, you could see the haze of pollution over the channel in th afternoon
Should help mask the wind-towers when i go to the cliff tops in a year or two !!

Hobad1 says...
8:58pm Thu 7 Mar 13

l'anglais wrote:
BIGTONE wrote:
Yea see.......Let our Government charge us a fortune for "Green living and air" then let the French kill us with their pollution. They done it with the Exocets
OK, we'll keep our pollution, as long as you stop sending Boat loads of tourists.
'Cos tourists are bad for any economy.......

l'anglais says...
9:25pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Hobad1 wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
BIGTONE wrote:
Yea see.......Let our Government charge us a fortune for "Green living and air" then let the French kill us with their pollution. They done it with the Exocets
OK, we'll keep our pollution, as long as you stop sending Boat loads of tourists.
'Cos tourists are bad for any economy.......
Well, the tourists disembarking at Cherbourg/Caen/Le Havre/Dieppe/Roscoff
/Calais/Dunkerque/Bo
ulogne, then heading off in their cars to Benidorm aren't doing much for the LOCAL economy are they.

miniminime says...
9:29pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Didn't come from France this time, it was Belgium

BIGTONE says...
8:06am Fri 8 Mar 13

miniminime wrote:
Didn't come from France this time, it was Belgium
It's the french's fault for allowing it through their borders just like Sangatte and the jungle at Calais.

elite50 says...
11:46am Fri 8 Mar 13

l'anglais wrote:
BIGTONE wrote:
Yea see.......Let our Government charge us a fortune for "Green living and air" then let the French kill us with their pollution. They done it with the Exocets
OK, we'll keep our pollution, as long as you stop sending Boat loads of tourists.
"We'll keep OUR pollution"?
Instead of l'anglais, should it not read French S***?
If you get my drift!

l'anglais says...
2:02pm Fri 8 Mar 13

elite50 wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
BIGTONE wrote:
Yea see.......Let our Government charge us a fortune for "Green living and air" then let the French kill us with their pollution. They done it with the Exocets
OK, we'll keep our pollution, as long as you stop sending Boat loads of tourists.
"We'll keep OUR pollution"?
Instead of l'anglais, should it not read French S***?
If you get my drift!
I think your thought pattern is heading right for the sewer.
Lave ta bouche/clavier avec du savon, sale emmerdeur

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