内容摘要：The 53-year-old has been told for the past five years that he is terminally ill and knows he could die tomorrow by choking on food or on his own saliva.

The 53-year-old has been told for the past five years that he is terminally ill and knows he could die tomorrow by choking on food or on his own saliva.

"So this year, what we're hoping to do is raise awareness of lung health and some of the simple things that people can do to protect themselves."He said reducing exposure to dust was really important.

"People will immediately think 'I'm putting on a dust mask', and that can be part of the solution," he said."But as well as that, working in well ventilated areas, working upwind of dusty activities, wetting down dusts before they're brushed or moved around, and possibly buying pelleted forms of feeds and chemicals rather than loose forms."All of these can reduce your dust exposure."

Dr Sean Roe, a senior lecturer at Queens University Belfast's medical school, said farmers often dismissed the initial signs of a respiratory issues, which include sniffing, coughing or watery eyes.He said it was better to try to prevent a respiratory issue rather than try to cure it. "to be working from the point of view of prevention rather than cure".

"Prevention is really the best way of dealing with it because in the long term, once you start to do permanent damage to the lungs, it's very hard to treat it," Dr Roe said.

"If you take in that dust and it stays down it can produce scar tissue in the lungs."But with recent changes to national insurance contributions on top of general inflationary pressures, the losses on these services have become unsustainable," he said.

The firm had been in discussions with McGuinness's team over a subsidy for the services but had been unable to find a solution, leaving Stagecoach with "no option," Mr Walker said.McGuinness has previously pledged to bring the North East's bus network back under public control for the first time since the 1980s.

However, this could take years to finalise.The Mayor said: "Cuts to services like this show that the current bus system is broken.