Gordon Brown calls for action over second radiation scare

FORMER prime minister Gordon Brown has called on the Ministry of Defence to act over a second area of radiation in his constituency.

Mr Brown, MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, asked what the Defence Secretary planned to do after the discovery of particles at Crowhill Wood, Fife.

He also asked the Ministry of Defence to confirm what reports it had received on the situation.

Crowhill Wood is near Dalgety Bay, where radioactive particles were found last year. Mr Brown has made two requests for a meeting with Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, and has called for “urgent action” to clean up the bay.

In response to his parliamentary question, defence minister Andrew Robathan said the MoD had received a report from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency in December of

radioactive concentration levels at Crowhill “which do not appear to be naturally occurring” and the MoD was trying to establish whether any MoD activities were undertaken there.