Many congratulations and huge thanks to local lollipop lady Alice Hayes who has just celebrated her 40th anniversary of helping Dulwich children cross the road safely. Local school children wrote Alice messages of thanks and gave her flowers and presents. Dulwich and Herne Hill Safe Routes to School gave her a trophy which read: Alice Hayes Thank you Keeping Dulwich children safe 40 years PC Daniel McLynn took Alice's afternoon shift so she could celebrate with the children and school staff. See the report in Southwark News here.

Public Health England has today published a report entitled Review of interventions to improve outdoor air quality and public health. The report says: The evidence is clear on the scale of harm from air pollution . It is the largest environmental risk to the public’s health in the UK with: e stimates of between 28,000 and 36,000 deaths each year attribut ed to human - made air pollution a c lose association with cardiovascular and respiratory d isease including lung cancer e merging evidence that other organs may also be affected, with possible effects on dementia, low birth weight and diabetes emerging evidence that children in their early years are especially at risk, including asthma and poorer lung development (PHE Review of Interventions, p. 7) The report argues that it is better to reduce pollution at source than to attempt to mitigate the consequences. Successful strategies to reduce air pollution require a coherent approach, with everyone having a role to play to...