EXTRA tests on meat samples in Pendle were to be carried out after the discovery of a Chernobyl radiation "hotspot" in the neighbouring Craven district.
Principal environmental health officer Mr Vernon Bird said the high deposits of radioactive caesium discovered by amateurs in the Threshfield area were caused by very heavy rainfall in the wake of the Soviet nuclear power station disaster.
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