A major emergency services response was launched this morning following reports of a male in the water. He was pulled out by the emergency services and taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital where he sadly died. The man s family have been informed and at this stage police are not treating his death as suspicious. Cheshire Constabulary said in a statement: At 9.15am on Sunday 9 May police were called to Backford Bridge, Shropshire Union Canal on the A41 Liverpool Road following reports of a man in the water. The man was pulled out of the water by emergency services and was attended to by paramedics at the scene before being taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital where he sadly died.
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The Rope & Anchor at Dunham Massey playground
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Cheshire Life writer Jenny chooses her own family favourites
With lockdown restrictions easing, our much-loved pubs have reopened their gardens, with full indoor dining planned to return from May 17.
With so much pent-up demand, outdoor bookings are high, with hopes of a long, hot summer ahead to enjoy the many beautiful beer gardens of Cheshire.
Now is the time to start planning your weekends spent exploring our charming county once more and co-ordinating these local adventures with lunch, dinner, and drinks at a favourite Cheshire pub on route.
My previous article was titled “The Paranormal Side of the Bigfoot Mystery.” As the title suggests it is focused on the weirder, supernatural aspects of the puzzle. It should be noted that Bigfoot is not the only unknown ape that seems to exhibit strange powers. And that’s the theme of today’s article: the other apes of the
very mysterious type. In the period from late 2002 to early 2003, the United Kingdom was gripped by a series of strange but intriguing reports of Bigfoot-style beasts, all across the nation. Jon Downes, of the Center for Fortean Zoology, well recalls the events, more than a decade down the line: “There occurred a huge ‘flap’ of Big Hairy Men (BHM) sightings throughout the British Isles that we could not afford to ignore and that required our immediate attention. Indeed, such was the scale of this extraordinary wave of encounters that, even as we made firm plans for an expedition in March, a handful of new sightings of large, man-beasts from the Bol
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Local volunteers encouraged to swap lockdown for ‘locking down’ as canal charity prepares for bumper summer of boating Date published: 12 March 2021
You can become a volunteer lock keeper
Waterways and wellbeing charity, the Canal and River Trust, has launched a campaign to recruit more volunteers to take on the iconic role of lock keeper as it prepares for a busy year on the North West’s waterways.
With coronavirus restrictions scheduled to ease over the coming months, and more people expected to be taking boating holidays in this country, the charity is appealing for volunteers to help keep North West waterways - including at Diggle Lock Flight in the Saddleworth - running smoothly.