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.

Includes spoilers for the show 'Toxic Town' Netflix's latest mini-series that's captured UK audiences is Toxic Town, a dramatisation of the true story of a group of Corby mothers who battled for justice when their children suffered as a result of one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals.

Here's the real story about what happened to Tracey Taylor's daughter Shelby Ann as the tragedy is portrayed in Netflix's Toxic Town.

The real women depicted in the hit Netflix drama Toxic Town have been lauding the series. Released last week, Toxic Town tells the true story of the Corby toxic waste scandal, which resulted in several women from the same town giving birth to children with birth defects and limb differences.

A new Netflix series explores one of the biggest environmental scandals in U.K. history — one that left dozens of children with birth defects.

I’ve done legal dramas before, but this one … being taken through the actual truth of it and seeing the journey that they had to go on in order to prove this, I found very surprising and shocking." All four episodes of Toxic Town are available to stream on Netflix now.

Netflix's new drama Toxic Town revisits one of the UK's biggest environmental scandals: the Corby toxic waste case. The series tells the story of families fighting for justice after children in the Northamptonshire town were born with birth defects,

The drama has already shown a disregard for basic health and safety requirements in the work and clearly demonstrated how the local people were being exposed to toxic dust and ele