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Toxic Town’s Roy Thomas & Pat Miller Are Based On Real-Life People
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Toxic Town’s concluding disclaimer revealed that the character of council leader, Roy Thomas, isn’t specifically based on a single person but loosely based on a number of leaders who served the Corby Borough Council (CBC) from the beginning of 1984 through to 2009-10. In 1980, after facing huge government cuts and sanctions, the British Steel Corporation permanently shut down its steelworks operation, leaving more than 11 thousand people unemployed. In order to keep Corby from turning into a ghost town, the Corby Council devised a plan to regenerate the town and create a new Corby. Under the leadership of Kelvin Glendenning, they took on the biggest land reclamation operation in Europe with the goal of bringing Corby back to life in 10 years.

As per the media reports, Glendenning served as CBC’s leader from 1984 to 1995, implying that Sam Hagen, who had been a part of the council for more than 30 years,...
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  • 2/27/2025
  • by Shikhar Agrawal
  • DMT
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