The junior clean air champions from Longsight asking the council to do more to improve air quality

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Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids For the last few years, Ruth Todhunter and her family have become frustrated with the increase of air pollution near their home in Longsight.

In an attempt to see if anything could be done to tackle the toxic air where she lived, Ruth contacted the British Lung Foundation and told them that she was concerned.

To her surprise, she was loaned a Zephyr Monitor, a device that can detect air quality measurements, and asked to measure the toxic air outside her daughter’s school on Northmoor Road for a month.