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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Havering Council facing legal action over fires at toxic landfill site in Rainham

An environmental group has launched legal action against Havering Council amid claims that a lack of action over an illegal landfill site is causing residents to breathe toxic, polluted air.

A toxic fire at Launders Lane in Rainham, east London, has routinely burned in the summer months for two decades.

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