CLEAN air campaigners have produced a second postcard depicting a smoky-looking Clitheroe.

One thousand of the cards depicting plume-grounding at Castle Cement's Ribblesdale works have been produced and are being sent to politicians and Governments around the world.

The card is the second in a series and campaigners have warned that there is more to come.

The photograph, taken by Air Watch member Mary Horner from a spot in West Bradford, depicts a chimney serving kilns five and six at the works, discharging into the atmosphere before grounding.

The postcards are to be used as publicity by the group, which is battling against alleged air pollution in Clitheroe.

And publication coincides with tonight's meeting of the Ribble Valley Council, when the campaigners will ask councillors to join them in an attempt to get kilns five and six shut down until the plume-grounding problem is sorted out.

A spokesman for Air Watch said the first postcard, which was published in January, had proved very effective.

It had been sent to governments and health authorities around the world and placed on the Internet.

She also said the postcards could be backed up by video evidence and had not been produced by photographic trickery, as had been claimed.

"As the photograph shows, plumes are grounding from kilns five and six, which burn Cemfuel. We will be asking councillors tonight to support our call for the Environment Agency to rescind Castle Cement's permission to use those two kilns until the problem is sorted out," spokesman Georgia Gill said.

A spokesman for Castle Cement said no one at the firm was able to comment until they had seen a copy of the postcard.

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