A council found negligent in its reclamation of an old steelworks site - blamed for causing birth defects - has agreed to pay compensation to the children affected. In a landmark High Court ruling ...

A council found negligent in its reclamation of an old steelworks site - blamed for causing birth defects - today agreed to pay compensation to the children affected. In a landmark High Court ruling ...

But families living nearby can take heart from the fact that West Surrey Health Authority has no record of any clusters of problems that could be related to the sites. The report was published last ...

The BBC radio documentary In Detail… The Toxic Waste Scandal released March 4 deals with the cluster of birth defects in newborns in the town of Corby in Northamptonshire, England. The defects were a ...

PREGNANT women who live near waste tips are more likely to have birth defects in their babies, it was revealed today. The largest study of ''landfill'' sites found that the rate of birth defects in ...

A group of young people who blame their birth defects on their mothers' exposure to “an atmospheric soup of toxic materials” have won a landmark ruling that a council was negligent in its reclamation ...

Mothers of 30 children born with webbed hands or webbed feet have won the right to bring a multimillion-pound legal action to try to prove a link between the mismanagement of toxic waste dumps and the ...

PEOPLE living near landfill waste sites have a small but clear increased risk of having a baby with a congenital defect, or of low weight, according to evidence that affects most Britons. Data ...

Families who claim their children were born with defects caused by exposure to toxic waste in Northamptonshire have won a legal battle at the High Court. They sued Corby Borough Council, saying ...

PEOPLE living near landfill waste sites have a small but clear increased risk of having a baby with a congenital defect, or of low weight, according to evidence that affects most Britons. Data ...