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Evening Standard
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Barney Davis

East Londoners brave toxic cloud emanating from dumpfire to host Coronation parties

East Londoners will be playing old classics like Hook a Duck and Guess the Sweets in a Jar at a Coronation party as decade-long fire spews out potentially harmful toxins just behind them.

Locals in Rainham, on the border of Havering and Essex, will be baking cakes and shaking donation buckets on the day of King Charles III’s coronation to raise funds for a legal challenge against Havering council to allow them to conduct their own air quality tests as fires from the dreaded Launders Lane pick up again in the hot weather.

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