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.

The show dramatises the real-life legal battle families waged over birth defects in a steel town.

In the the 80s and 90s, the rates of babies born with limb differences in the Corby area was found to be almost three times higher than those of children born in the surrounding area

The Netflix series is based on the real story of the Corby town poisonings, but do the mothers get justice in the finale?

A group of mothers whose children suffered birth defects banded together to fight for justice after toxic waste contaminated their town. | ITV News Anglia

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The four-part drama, starring Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood, is an in-depth observation of the Corby poisoning scandal

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