Netflix’s limited series ‘Toxic Town’ premiered on Feb. 27 and fictionalized the shocking Corby poisoning case Netflix’s new limited series Toxic Town tells the shocking story of poisonous pollution, an alleged town cover-up and a group of mothers ...

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

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". Here is everything you need to know about the show and the real events in the Northamptonshire town that inspired it.

Netflix tells the story of the Corby mothers who fought for justice after their children were born with severe deformities due to the council's failure to remove toxic waste properly

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.