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Housing estate ‘at risk from radiation and toxic metals’

An expert report for North Lanarkshire Council has found that there is a risk that land underneath a Motherwell housing estate is contaminated with radioactivity and toxic metals.

The report reinforces residents’ fears that their health is being harmed by pollution from a wartime munitions factory that was once based on the site, near Watling Street.