{"id":60984,"date":"2025-08-12T06:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60984\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T06:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:18:07","slug":"high-pollution-warning-issued-for-london-by-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60984\/","title":{"rendered":"High pollution warning issued for London by City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A high air pollution alert has been issued for London on Tuesday as temperatures are forecast to rise above 30C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City Hall said strong sunshine and hot weather are expected to trigger high ozone levels, with airflow from mainland Europe likely to worsen the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The forecast, produced by Imperial College London, prompted the mayor&#8217;s office to trigger the alert, which will be displayed on bus stop countdown boards, London Underground signs and sent to schools and borough councils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mete Coban, the deputy mayor for environment and energy, said London&#8217;s &#8220;toxic air&#8221; is linked to around 4,000 premature deaths in the capital each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high air pollution alert has been issued for London on Tuesday as temperatures are forecast to rise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-60984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}