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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Pippa Neill

‘I just want to know if it has caused my cancer’: life in the shadow of Lancashire Pfas factory

Houses in Thornton-Cleveleys with solar panels on their roofs, dwarfed by the AGC Chemicals Europe factory behind them
Last month, a government commissioned study found higher-than-expected rates of kidney cancer in the vicinity of the AGC Chemicals Europe plant. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“Everything I wanted was finally coming to fruition. A house, a change of job and getting married,” says Liz Hurst, looking out to sea on a hot evening in Blackpool.

“But then all of a sudden, everything was put on hold.” Fifteen years ago, Hurst was diagnosed with kidney cancer aged 32.

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