Flying Mary Poppins in gas mask calls for clean air in London
Updated 10:32, 28-Jun-2018
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Mary Poppins wearing a gas mask was spotted floating over Parliament Square on Friday in London. (Photo: CFP)

Mary Poppins wearing a gas mask was spotted floating over Parliament Square on Friday in London. (Photo: CFP)

As a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins is a character from a series of books by PL Travers, popularized in a 1964 Disney movie. (Photo: CFP)

As a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins is a character from a series of books by PL Travers, popularized in a 1964 Disney movie. (Photo: CFP)

The cut-out of the famous nanny was made by Greenpeace to highlight air pollution in the UK, because the country's entire annual air pollution limit was already breached in just the first week of 2017. (Photo: CFP)

The cut-out of the famous nanny was made by Greenpeace to highlight air pollution in the UK, because the country's entire annual air pollution limit was already breached in just the first week of 2017. (Photo: CFP)

EU legal limits for hourly levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide must not exceed 200 micrograms per cubic meter more than 18 times in a whole year, but Brixton Road in Lambeth had already broken that by Thursday. (Photo: CFP)

EU legal limits for hourly levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide must not exceed 200 micrograms per cubic meter more than 18 times in a whole year, but Brixton Road in Lambeth had already broken that by Thursday. (Photo: CFP)