ONE of the region's most contaminated sites is being opened to the public today -- as a country park.
The Wigg Island site, in the shadow of the Widnes-Runcorn Bridge, in Cheshire, was used to develop mustard gas during the Second World War.
It was closed to the public in the mid-1990s because of fears of chemical contamination.
But it has now been transformed into parkland with cycleways and bird hides among its features.
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