Sara Wallis: 10-year battle for the toxic truth of child poisoning

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This film tells the shocking story of the worst child poisoning case since thalidomide, which left a group of mothers desperate for the truth.

It was in the 1990s when strange things began to happen in the small town of Corby, Northamptonshire. Children were being born with severe hand and feet deformities.

The parents were told by doctors at the time that this was just one of those things. But as more cases came to light, and as a journalist started asking questions, the mothers demanded to know what had happened to their children.

The fear was that a toxic chemical ­wasteland created by a massive steelworks had caused air pollution that in turn led to birth defects.