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BBC to screen Manchester Ship Canal history documentary

A new series charting the impact of canals in the formation of the country’s industrial and social history will be broadcast tonight on the BBC. Manchester-born...

Appeal: Teenage boy robbed at knifepoint on Eccles canal path

Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenage boy was robbed of his phone by a man who pulled a knife on him in Winton, Eccles. At around 6pm on Tuesday 12 May, the...

Salford canal rape claim was fake, say police

A woman who reported being raped on a canal tow path in Eccles was making it up, say Greater Manchester Police. Officers issued this description of a man in his 50s...