The series delves into the 2009 lawsuit led by Susan (Jodie Whittaker) and a handful of other real-life mothers from Corby, whose children were all born with limb differences believed to have been ...

Article continues below Jodie Whittaker plays leader of the group Susan McIntyre, who was born in Scotland but moved to Corby aged three. Susan is a single mother who becomes suspicious after her ...

BBC Radio Northampton has produced an eight-part documentary series called In Detail: The Toxic Waste Scandal, which is available to download It tells the story of families in Corby living near ...

That's it for our programme in Corby. Thanks for watching. In Detail: The Toxic Waste Scandal is available on BBC Sounds, while Netflix's drama Toxic Town is streaming now. You can also watch and ...

The women have varied lives in Corby, Northamptonshire, but one thing connects them: All of their children, born around the same time, have birth defects. And they don’t think it’s a coincidence.

Between 1984 and 1999, the Corby borough council in Northamptonshire, England, demolished the town’s defunct steelworks for development. In the process, it dumped trucks full of toxic sludge ...

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She is in constant pain.” India was suffering because she was born in the town of Corby, and conceived when the town’s pregnant women were subjected to a mass poisoning. Dozens of babies born ...

Toxic Town portrays the real-life battle of families in the British town of Corby whose children were born with defects. Written by Jack Thorne, it focuses on a group of mums who ‘took on a ...

Here are the true events that inspired the four-episode mini-series... A small town in the East Midlands, Corby was home to a steelworks that was built in the 1930s. As a hub of employment ...