Important news for asthmatic and any respiratory disease sufferers. A new Real Time Air Monitoring Station will opened by the Mayor of Rugby, Councillor Jerry Roodhouse, on 18 June 1999, situated at The Rugby Lions Football Club car park.

The new Air Monitoring Station will monitor air quality and the concentration of pollutants that are present in the air that we all breath. The Station will also look at wind direction, and will ascertain where certain pollutants come from. The data from the Station is invaluable and it is hoped that the information collected may soon be available to the public.

Previously in Rugby air quality monitoring has only been able to determine the concentration of a certain pollutant over a monthly period.

The future in Rugby now looks good as Real Time means the Council will be able to correlate any data daily. In addition the data from the Station will prove to be invaluable in determining current and future trends in the air quality and pollution levels in the Rugby.

The Station is a joint initiative by Rugby Borough Council, The Environmental Agency, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and Rugby Cement.