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Bill McLoughlin

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: Mother calls for wood-burner ban after child’s death

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died from dangerous levels of air pollution in 2013 (Family handout)

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Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s mother has called for a ban on wood-burning stoves in London after her child became first person in Britain whose death was linked to air pollution.

Ella, died on February 15, 2013, aged nine, following an asthma attack. She became the first person in Britain to have air pollution listed by a coroner as a cause of death.

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