A RADIO presenter has been given the all clear to fly again despite suffering a blood clot following a seven-and-half-hour transatlantic flight.

Newsreader Andrew Bailey, from Eccleston, a member of 105.4 Century FM's breakfast show team, was struck down when he arrived in New York at the start of a week-long presentation of the show live from the USA.

As he left the plane he started to feel massive pains in his left leg and headed straight for the team's hotel where he went to bed with his leg resting on a pillow. Shortly afterwards though he was woken up by one of his colleagues who told him his veins were black from the ankle up to the calf.

Andrew, told the Star: "At first glance it looked like deep vain thrombosis so I immediately phoned an emergency room doctor and was taken to hospital where an ultra-sound scan was carried out to assess the damage.

"I told the doctors that I was working later that evening and they said it was only superficial thrombosis and that if I didn't drink and took some aspirin there would be no problems.

"Although I was absolutely terrified I eventually made it to the show with 90 minutes to spare and went on air with presenters Tony Horne and Mike Maguire, broadcasting live from Time Square".

But still the trauma wasn't over. When he arrived home, Andrew visited his own GP for blood tests and was told that the threat of deep vain thrombosis could not be ruled out.

He added: "Despite what has happened, I still love flying and I am very relieved to be in a position to do so in the future. However, I would like to stress to others that it is important on a long flight to move about as much as possible to keep the blood circulating and also to avoid drinking both before and while travelling".