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UK local authority found negligent over birth defects
and contaminated land remediation
A number of families sued Corby District Council saying deformities to hands and feet were due to 
mothers being exposed to a 'soup of toxic materials' between 1985 and 1999, because of exposure to
dust resulting from excvation and removal. The council was todat found negligent over its work to reclaim a steel plant at the High Court in
London BBC News link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/8173733.
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Families win birth defect battle
Posted: 29/07/2009 By: Professor Paul Bardos



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