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

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.

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Claudia Jessie stars as Maggie Mahon in Toxic Town, who is based on a real-life person. Her husband worked driving one of the lorries and, as shown in Toxic Town, she would have to beat all of the dust off of his clothes.

The series, which is due to arrive on the streaming platform on 27 February, stars Jodie Whittaker (of Doctor Who and Broadchurch fame), Aimee Lou Wood (of Sex Education and The White Lotus ), Claudia Jessie ( Bridgerton) and Robert Carlyle ( The Full Monty ), among many others.

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

The new Netflix series looks at a British environmental scandal, but is it a true story and who are the character's based on?

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