Manchester moor fires exposed people to ‘shocking’ levels of harmful air


Legal limit for daily exposure to damaging particulate matter was breached five times

Millions of people were exposed to “shocking” levels of harmful air as a result of moor fires that raged across Greater Manchester this summer, a new study has found.

Firefighters and soldiers battled devastating blazes at Winter Hill and Saddleworth Moor for weeks in June and July this year.

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