Factory’s toxic soil pollution known for 20 years before alert
Historic forever chemicals were found in the soil of a Lancashire factory nearly 20 years before locals were alerted to the risk.
Residents living near the Hillhouse site in Thornton-Cleveleys discovered hugely elevated levels of banned carcinogens in their blood last month.
Many had been growing their own food and raising animals within a half-kilometre radius of the factory until an investigation, launched in 2024, revealed chemicals in the soil of their gardens and allotments and in vegetables, fruit and eggs.
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