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Unsightly air quality monitoring equipment will stay in place in Linlithgow’s historic High Street even though it is no longer needed. ‌

Tom Conn, the local Labour councillor, asked environmental health staff why the apparatus was still in place a year after a monitoring order had been revoked. ‌

He told a meeting that its removal would save the Scottish Government money and show townspeople that pollution was no longer a problem. ‌

Councillor Conn said: “The air monitor has been very prominent in Linlithgow High Street for the best part of 25 to 30 years. Is it not time that it’s retired if it’s not serving any great purpose?” READ MORE : West Lothian course proving championship golf doesn’t stop when clocks go back

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