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Does the name Donora mean anything to you? -Donora? Oh, of course I remember Donora. It was a scandal. A small mill town in America, outside Philadelphia? Pittsburgh. -They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local copper work Zinc. - ... in the fog. In a few days a number of people died. Twenty. And several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog. After the incident a cross-party delegation was sent to Donora on an urgent fact-finding mission. They recommended that clean air zones be set up all round London, as a precautionary measure. - I never saw the report. With good reason. Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority. === The choking, eye-watering fog which has already caused two days of chaos across the capital has worsened overnight. The great coal-burning electricity stations in Battersea and Fulham, have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulphur dioxide from their chimneys.