Netflix's new drama Toxic Town revisits one of the UK's biggest environmental scandals: the Corby toxic waste case. The ...

Journalist Graham Hind had received a tip about problems with the decontamination of a former steel works site in Corby and multiple cases of children born with birth defects to mothers who lived or ...

The show follows the lives of some families in Corby, a small UK town dealing with the closure of the local steel works. As the major employer in the town, there was huge unemployment to deal with.

The British Steel Corporation demolished the works, and using government and European ... revealing birth defects in Corby were three times higher than in the surrounding area.