YOUNGSTERS from Chernobyl will touch down in the UK on Saturday and will spend the next four weeks in Warrington – and their short stay could see their life expectancy increased.

Families in the town will open up their homes and their hearts to children who have suffered from the terrible after effects of one of the world’s biggest nuclear disasters in Chernobyl in April 1986.

The visit, which was organised by the Burtonwood Link of Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline, will allow the children from Belarus to get access to things many people in the UK take for granting including fresh air and uncontaminated food.