Restrictions covering sheep movements after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have finally been lifted from all farms in England and Wales after 26 years.
After the 1986 disaster, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) placed controls on 9,800 UK farms, but these were gradually removed.
The final eight in Cumbria and the last 327 in Wales are now free of them.
Adam Briggs, from the NFU, said it meant an end to the “sorry situation” of the Chernobyl legacy.
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