The Most Polluted Town in Britain

Between 1985 and 1997, Corby Borough Council hired contractors to haul toxic steelworks waste through residential streets in open lorries. No warnings. No covers. Exposed to cadmium, arsenic, lead, and chromium, dozens of pregnant women later gave birth to children with severe limb defects. The council denied everything for over a decade. This is the full story of the Corby birth defect cluster and the landmark court case that followed. Corby hand, steelworks contamination, birth defects, environmental negligence, British Erin Brockovich.