New Netflix drama Toxic Town tells the story of the Corby poisonings, which saw women in the give birth to children with severe limb deformities

A group of mothers whose children suffered birth defects banded together to fight for justice after toxic waste contaminated their town. | ITV News Anglia

Netflix’s limited series ‘Toxic Town’ premiered on Feb. 27 and fictionalized the shocking Corby poisoning case

The Netflix series is based on the real story of the Corby town poisonings, but do the mothers get justice in the finale?

I n Toxic Town, a drama out now on Netflix, poisonous dust in the air causes children to be born with missing limbs and other physical abnormalities. The alarming story is based on a real incident, when people in the English town of Corby inhaled toxic dust that was later linked to birth defects in a cluster of children.

Here is the true story on which it’s based. Corby is not the sort of town you move to without a reason. Nowadays, it has two: skateboarding and steel. It is home to Europe’s largest indoor skatepark –120,