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Annual air pollution limits in London were exceeded five days into 2017.

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Brixton Road in London exceeded the year's total air pollution restrictions just five days into the new year. According to EU air pollution regulations, monitoring stations cannot record unusually high levels of nitrogen dioxide at any one place more than 18 times each year. But on January 5, 2017, Brixton Road in London went beyond this restriction for the 19th time. Other places in London, such as Putney High Street and Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, soon followed.

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