Friday, 21 August 2026 — GM Watch
UK: Hollywood actor seeks help from vicar for series
A Shropshire vicar played a key role in a new two-part BBC documentary featuring Welsh Hollywood actor Michael Sheen’s investigation into toxic waste dumps. The Rev Paul Cawthorne is also a long time environmental campaigner. He began looking into the history of the former landfill site at Stoney Hill, in Telford, where Monsanto is known to have legally dumped waste in the mid to late 1980s. “When I found out about the Monsanto chemical dumping at Stoney Hill, I next identified Sutton Walls in Herefordshire, then Cefn Mawr in north Wales,” he said. “I then went around south Wales valleys identifying historically documented sites which needed additional testing,” he added. Cawthorne said he has been on a 20 year mission to uncover the truth. He said that “dangerously elevated levels” of polychlorinated biphenyls – toxic man-made chemicals which don’t easily break down in nature – were found in nine out of 10 sites discussed in the Buried BBC radio series. BBC News
Naudline Pierre (Haiti), This, I Know to Be True, 2023.
