Emission zone 'increases charity's costs by a third'

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 12 March 2008

A small charity that sends aid packages to Kosovo claims new London emissions charges will increase the cost of delivering the aid by a third.

Essex charity Hope and Aid Direct will have to pay £800 to make return journeys with two lorries full of donations between its warehouse in Brentwood and Dagenham, where they take a ferry to the continent. Under Transport for London rules, goods vehicles that discharge a high level of emissions...

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