Toxic Town depicts the real-life battle of families in Corby whose children were born with defects in what Netflix described as "one of the UK's biggest environmental scandals". Superb drama based on the true story of a group of women in Corby, UK who find that their babies are being born with limb deformities. Two women played by Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lee Wood first notice that their babies, born at the same time, have defects. In 1984, the town of Corby, located 72 miles northwest of London, began the process to bulldoze the steelworks that had previously served as the area’s predominant source of employment. To achieve this plan, they ferried poisonous sludge, burnt orange and mud brown in color, through Corby at high ... 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.
