The UK Health Security Agency is investigating “potential exposure to toxic waste” experienced by villagers living near a contaminated housing site. Officials at the highest level are now involved in looking into issues raised by the residents.
This comes after two neighbours suffered seizures and stroke-like symptoms which they believe are linked to harmful substances from nearby historic landfills. Hannah Tomlinson and Stuart Puddick, who live next to each other, both started experiencing illness within days of each other.
Mrs Tomlinson and Mr Puddick believe that their health concerns are linked to construction workers disrupting the soil, including digging trenches, on the field at the end of their gardens on land known as Nether Farm in Somercotes, Derbyshire, where developer Avant Homes is hoping to build 200 houses, DerbyshireLive reports.
