A monitor in Keighley's town hall square is helping environmental experts assess air pollution across the district.

Local people can check air quality on a regularly-updated screen in the nearby Keighley Information Centre window.

Permanent monitoring stations in Keighley and Bingley, plus a mobile station, have been bought with £170,000 of government cash. A further £60,000 grant is paying for a computer system to assess air quality using information from the monitors and other sources of pollution. Officers will use the information in working with health agencies to advise people who are most at risk from poor air quality.

Bradford council's public health and protection sub-committee will meet on Tuesday to study the latest air pollution figures and compare them with national standards.

They will hear that about £16,000 of council cash will be needed each year to operate the three pollution monitors.

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