A new Netflix series puts a dramatic lens on one of the biggest environmental scandals in U.K. history - one that left dozens of children with birth defects

Toxic Town, starring Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood, is the latest hit show out of Netflix, receiving an impressive 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But how much of it is based on a true story?

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