While the scandal was horrific, it’s become unknown to many people including Toxic Town writer Jack Thorne, who told Netflix Tudum: ‘I didn’t know the story, I’d never heard of the people involved, and I’d never heard of the case until it was brought to me.’.
The council denied it was negligent and that there was any link between the removal of waste to a quarry north of the site and deformities affecting hands and feet, but the court found there was a ‘statistically significant’ cluster of birth defects between 1989 and 1999, and the council later agreed to pay compensation to the children affected.
2024] In a landmark High Court ruling in 2009, Corby Borough Council was found negligent in its management of toxic waste at a former steelworks site in the town during the 1980s and 90s.
Starring Doctor Who actress Jodie Whittaker and Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood, Toxic Town dramatizes a horrific scandal from the 1980s.
Early reviews have branded Jodie ‘flawless’ in the series, with The Guardian’s Rachel Aroesti writing: ‘Toxic Town transforms a painfully sad tale of infuriating injustice into something that’s just about bearable to watch.’.
