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Parents of children at Bonham Road Government Primary School are fighting the MTR Corporation (SEHK: 0066)'s plan to site a ventilation shaft next to the school. They say it will expose pupils to harmful fumes. William Fok Ming-fuk, chairman of the school's parent-teacher association, said parents had been fighting the proposed shaft, to be built as part of the West Island Line, for two years and time was running out to stop it. Mr Fok said only a narrow lane separated the shaft from classrooms, meaning students would constantly be exposed to pollutants such as carbon dioxide.