Telegraph: 'Hell,' wrote Shelley, "is a city much like London -- / A populous and a smoky city'. Never was that more true than over one terrible weekend 60 years ago. On Friday, December 5 1952, a silent, suffocating shroud settled over the capital's streets. By the time it lifted, four days later, more than 4,000 people had lost their lives in what is still officially the world's worst air pollution disaster. It was the climax of a long and dirty history, full of procrastination and half-hearted attempts...
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