Pollution

Linda Cox who was born in 1948.
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Next to the swimming baths was what my dad used to call the "Destructors". It was run by the council, and when all the refuse collections had been carried out, it was brought here to be destroyed and burned. There was a very tall chimney standing on this ground, and on certain days my poor mam couldn't hang her washing out because of the black bits of soot flying from the chimney when it was burning the rubbish. This chimney was later dismantled brick by brick.

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Councillor Farook Subedar came to live in Highfields in 1972.
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Nowadays people do not commute so much on local transport. The more cars we have the more damage we are causing to our environment. Lots of children are suffering with all kinds of disease. This is all because of the pollution and it is a hard job to convince everyone that it is good for them to use local public transport. But you can't blame the community. The local transport is so expensive, but when people work out their budget, they realise that the local transport is much, much more expensive than running their own car. That is the reason, but unfortunately it's not a healthy one.

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