{"id":407220,"date":"2026-02-04T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:59:09","slug":"british-mothers-fight-the-slow-poison-of-industrial-pollution-in-corby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407220\/","title":{"rendered":"British mothers fight the slow poison of industrial pollution in Corby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">The pouring rain of mid-January did not deter Maggie Mahon and Tracie Taylor. The two friends, both 54 years old, insisted on showing these locations in Corby \u2013 a town of 70,000 in the heart of the Midlands, about 100 km north of London \u2013 where millions of metric tons of rubble and toxic waste have been buried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">This waste came from the demolition of the massive Corby Steelworks industrial complex after it closed in 1980. &#8220;This is Little Stanion [in the south of the city], a housing estate of 2,500 residents where, since 2006, two children have been born with congenital deformities and a third died shortly after birth with severe internal malformations,&#8221; explained Taylor, an accountant by profession, as she pointed to streets lined with identical brick houses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">&#8220;These houses were built on land where steel mill waste was buried,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Whistleblowers who worked for a subcontractor on the steelworks regeneration project told us that the waste was dumped into every available excavation in the municipality. If there was a hole, it got put in,&#8221; said Taylor, who worked from 1989 to 1997 just across from Deene Quarry, a former quarry that was also used as one of the main storage sites for steel mill waste.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img viewbox=\"0 0 664 443\"   width=\"664\" height=\"443\" alt=\"Maggie Mahon at her home in Corby (United Kingdom), January 15, 2026.\"\/>    Maggie Mahon at her home in Corby (United Kingdom), January 15, 2026.  RAPHA\u00cbL NEAL\/AGENCE VU&#8217; FOR LE MONDE                   <\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \">You have 87.38% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pouring rain of mid-January did not deter Maggie Mahon and Tracie Taylor. The two friends, both 54&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-407220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}