Paralysed feet and fingers ... how an author was poisoned by the factory next door - Daily Mail 20th February 2008

Lethargy, muscular weakness, sleep disturbance: these were the first hints that something was wrong. It just didn't occur to me that the nasty smells from the Conker Shoe Factory might be responsible. Conker was joined like a Siamese twin to the rear of my house in Totnes, Devon, but its front was on the High Street.

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