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Subject: Families win birth defect battle
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 3:24 pm
Full report on BBC News Online
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 deformities to hands and feet were due to mothers being exposed to a "soup of toxic materials" between 1985 and 1999.
The council was found negligent over work to reclaim a steel plant. It said it was "disappointed" at the ruling.
The judge found in favour of 16 of the 18 claimants.
Corby Borough Council chief executive Chris Mallender said: "Our position has always been that there was no link between the reclamation work that was carried out in Corby in past decades and these children's birth defects. That is still our position."
The case relates to birth defects in 18 people with links to Corby aged between nine and 22.