Examination of the Office of National Statistics (ONS) data for years 1998 - 2005 has shown that electoral wards that are downwind of the Ironbridge Power Station had an average infant mortality rate three times that of the upwind wards.

Examined wards upwind of the Ironbridge Power Station had an infant mortaliy rate that was half that of the average for England & Wales for the years 1998 - 2005.

The average infant mortality rate in examined downwind wards was 46 percent above that of the average for England & Wales for the years 1998 - 2005.

Furthermore, the 2005 Shropshire Asthma Survey showed that the percentage of children in years 3 to 6 bringing inhalers to school for asthma in the downwind wards was more than three times higher than the upwind wards.

If the infant mortality rate had been the same in the above downwind wards as in the upwind wards, there would have been 17 infant deaths recorded during the eight-year period 1998 to 2005 instead of 51 infant deaths.  The 34 “excess” infant deaths [i.e. over 4 per year] in the nine downwind wards during 1998 to 2005 are consistent with PM2.5 emissions from the power station at Ironbridge.

The downwind wards have rates of both infant mortality and childhood asthma that are three times higher than the upwind wards and this pattern should have been known to Telford & Wrekin PCT and Shropshire County PCT, who should have alerted the Environment Agency and also the three Boroughs of Telford & Wrekin, Shrewsbury & Atcham, and Bridgnorth instead of colluding in a cover-up.