"Gianna Stefani" wrote in message
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Philip Eden wrote:
RMK The atmosphere's rather smelly this evening: a whiff of London?

If on a light evening (before street lights are lit) you travel a little
way up the A6 to Barton, then turn right toward Hitchin, it is possible to
look back over Luton from that hillside. On such evenings one may observe
the yellowish 'fog' which floats over the town - maybe it is visible all
the time (when daylight) but I do not know that.

It is not as bad as the similar 'fog' which hovers over St. Helens
although according to a friend of mine who lives there, St. Helens is the
most (air) polluted town in England.

Gianna, that is the hillside upon which I live. The yellow-brown
pollution haze which you mention is only occasionally visible ...
on days of light or no wind with high RH and otherwise good
visibility ... and comprises diesel fumes along the line of the M1
which parallels the western horizon as viewed from up here.
Otherwise Luton is no more polluted than any other town in
Southeast England now that all the manufacturing industry has
gone, much as some might like to think otherwise :-p

Philip Eden