24 Problems Only People From Newton Aycliffe Will Understand

16. Worrying About Hydro Polymers Blowing Up

Everyone in Newton Aycliffe grew up hearing the (possibly exaggerated) rumours - if Hydro Polymers on the industrial estate was to take a turn for the worse and explode, everything for miles around would go with it. Now, that may well be true (you'd have to ask a polyvinyl chloride expert about that), but people from Aycliffe are some of the only people who can really lay claim to living in that kind of fear!