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It was a crisis 25 years ago that prompted a Lancashire woman to want to help the young victims of the world's worst nuclear accident. On 26 April 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant left huge parts of Ukraine and Belarus contaminated. The Friends of Chernobyl's Children charity says over the past 17 years it has brought hundreds of young people to the county for recuperative care. Charity founder Olwyn Keogh, said the project had expanded enormously. "We bring over 600 children a year to the county and rest of the UK, there's no point in bringing them just once, you need to bring them for four or five years to give them constant recuperative care to make a difference to their health," she said. Read the story here.