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The Sun
a day ago
- General
- The Sun
Mystery as body pulled from canal next to music arena in city centre with police setting up huge cordon
A BODY has been pulled from a canal next to a popular city centre music arena. Emergency services were called to Castlefield Bowl, in Manchester, at around 5pm today after a body was found in the water. Greater Manchester Police cordoned off the area while investigations continue this evening. No further information about the body has been released. A local witness told the M.E.N:"It was one of the boaters who called the police. "She saw what she thought was a coat floating in the water. "She came back later on and it had resurfaced from under the boats." The resident said members of the public were then evacuated from the area by emergency services. A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: "At around 5.10pm today, emergency services were called to reports of a body in the canal close to Liverpool Road, Manchester. "Officers attended and sadly, a body was subsequently recovered from the water. "Enquiries are currently ongoing." 1 is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video. Like us on Facebook at and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun.
CBS News
2 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Body pulled out of Central Valley canal, investigation underway
Authorities in Ceres are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a canal over the weekend. Ceres police say they got a report from concerned citizens around 6 p.m. Sunday about a possible body in a canal along Moore Road, north of Roeding Road. With the help of Modesto Fire and American Medical Response personnel, the body was pulled out of the canal. Medics pronounced the person dead minutes later, police say. No form of identification was found with the person's body. Exactly how the person died is now under investigation by the Stanislaus County Coroner's Office.
Irish Times
28-05-2025
- Health
- Irish Times
I have nothing against cycling, but spare me from speeding cyclists on country paths
It's five years now since the great Covid influx of non-locals to our local canal walk, and you might still happen upon the occasional conversation about visitor resistance to a friendly nod. But conversations these days are more likely to be about the cyclists who regularly mistake the narrow towpath for a speedway. Let's just agree at the outset that cycling can be challenging and deadly. Recently a woman cycling across the narrow old canal bridge found herself competing with an oncoming driver who reckoned he could squeeze the van past her on the crest, which left her clinging to the stone wall with bike and bloodied knees. When he finally relented and reversed she accepted his apology with remarkable grace. She cycles that same canal stretch every weekend at a leisurely pace, gathering the head space to face another week – and hers is probably the kind of gentle image that pops into mind when people think of bikes and picturesque towpaths. The problem is that she's a rare one. More often it's groups of three or more with all the competitive thrusting of lads chasing Sam Bennett. On a towpath. The problem, to be clear, is not the cycling but the aggressive speed and silence of the cyclists. Walkers don't hear them coming until they're bearing down on them. From there on, rather than communing with the swans and the herons, the walkers are on red alert for the next incursion. That fear is entirely rational on a towpath, an urban footpath or a country road. Serious collisions between cyclists and pedestrians are not as rare as some like to think. A 10-year RSA study of seriously injured pedestrians showed that while 2,022 were hit by a car or light-goods vehicle, 125 had landed in hospital as a result of a collision with a cyclist. That's one serious collision a month. Among those with the most severe – possibly life-changing – injuries, 46 had been hit by a pedal bike. That compared with 24 seriously injured by a motorbike or 56 by a HGV or bus. READ MORE There are regulations around cycling. In 2023, 43 cyclists were issued with a fixed-penalty notice for breaking a red light. Eighteen were prosecuted for riding a bike without due care and attention. Other offences include cycling into a pedestrianised street or area, or on a footpath or cycling without reasonable consideration. The 1963 Road Traffic Regulations also stipulate that all bicycles used in a public place must be fitted with a bell (and regularly dinged presumably). [ Eamon Ryan: Moaning about cycle lanes is a symptom of our inertia on road safety and climate Opens in new window ] It is standard practice at this stage to say 'But not all cyclists ...' But there is a culture problem, according to none other than the patron saint of cyclists, Eamon Ryan . Asked at a Dodder greenway meeting last year how he was going to make cyclists using such facilities obey the law, the then minister for transport talked about widening cycling and walking paths (which is not always possible) but also pointed the finger at 'cycling culture'. A local who complained that walking was being made dangerous by cyclists who 'really don't care about pedestrians' was right, said the Minister. 'I think it's also very much incumbent on the cycling community to create a culture and an attitude.' He also wanted it properly enforced. An interesting fact to emerge from all this is how stubbornly male and sadly small cycling remains. An Injuries Resolution Board's report on 329 crash claims affecting cyclists in 2023 showed that 77 per cent of the cyclists were male, with an average age of 42. This suggests that middle-aged male cyclists are particularly vulnerable to injury or that fewer women are cycling and are less inclined to take risks. But more than eight in 10 respondents said they never or rarely cycled, according to a recent Ireland Thinks poll for Red Click insurers, which is both surprising and sad. Here again the gender disparity kicks in: two-thirds of women blamed the danger of the roads but only half the men. Other deterrents were traffic volume, dangerous driving, lack of confidence, lack of segregated cycle lanes, weather, poor street lighting and near-misses. No one seemed to mention other cyclists. [ Dublin city cycle lane funding slashed by €16m Opens in new window ] It may also be that Irish people generally have yet to settle into the common courtesies and manners around the use of public space. And that the authorities have yet to meet them in many cases with adequate seating, public toilets, bins and decent lighting. But some cyclists project the righteous sense that only they can fully appreciate – and suffer for – a society that encourages outdoor activity, active commuting, clean air and green transport. The Cork Cycling Campaign's nuanced tone on etiquette could be a starting point on the path to reconciliation. It believes that cyclists should behave as 'guests' when 'using the footpath for short stretches is inevitable', but that children, for example, should be permitted to cycle on footpaths 'after instruction on how to do so safely'. Cyclists should pass pedestrians slowly and with great care, they say, and should ring the bell '(politely) to warn pedestrians of your approach – no one likes to be startled'. If some of that sounds radical, brace for this one: 'Be prepared to stop and yield the right of way to pedestrians if necessary.' A final one might be a reminder that just as country roads are not built for high motoring speeds, towpaths and most greenways are not built for high cycling speeds. People might routinely break the rules or guidance on all of them but that's hardly the safe, conciliatory or righteous answer for anyone.
BBC News
27-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Heron tangled in fishing wire released back into wild
A wildlife rescuer has said a heron which was found caught in fishing line managed to beat the odds to be released back into the wild. Brinsley Animal Rescue said it received four or five phone calls a week about wildlife trapped in fishing wire but only managed to rescue one in 20 when Jon Beresford, co-founder of the centre, received a call about a wounded heron trapped in fishing wire at the Ilkeston canal, he did not hold out much hope of a positive he was not only able to capture the bird but nurse it back to health and it has now been released back into the wild. Mr Beresford said: "It's a massive frustration that I get so many calls for ducks, geese and other birds caught in fishing wire and it's very rare that I can do anything. "If they are on or near water, they are very difficult to catch, even if they're tangled, because they just go back into the water where we have no means to catch them. "And when we are able to catch them, they are usually starving or near to the end of life by that point, so by then, the chances are fairly slim."Mr Beresford said it took four days before he was able to get to the heron at Ilkeston Canal, which was left with a wound in its wing and another on its beak. It was then taken to a vet and put on a drip, before rescue centre staff started the process of feeding the heron themselves and allowing it to build up its strength over several weeks. The bird was initially fed on special liquid recovery food, before being force fed fish, until he started eating on his own."Then at the weekend, we decided it was time to see if he could fly," Mr Beresford said. "We took him to our big field, so that if he couldn't make it very far, he'd be easier to catch again."But he just flew and flew. It was amazing and made all the hard work worthwhile."
South China Morning Post
24-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
China greenlights mega-project canal linking resource-rich Jiangxi to wealthy Zhejiang
A new 767-kilometre-long canal linking the inland rare earth hub of Jiangxi province with the eastern coastal powerhouse of Zhejiang has officially been included in the government's agenda, according to a recently released policy document, as the Chinese government steps up efforts to expand its inland waterway network. Advertisement China already boasts a sprawling web of high-speed rail and highways that reach deep into nearly every corner of the country, but officials have increasingly turned to rivers and artificial waterways – part of a broader push to lower logistical costs and integrate less-developed inland regions with wealthier coastal hubs, analysts said. The Jiangxi-Zhejiang Canal is part of a mega-project aimed at connecting Guangdong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang by water. It is expected to become the most expensive artificial canal ever built in China, with an estimated investment of 320 billion yuan (US$44.4 billion), nearly three times that of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. In an action plan released in early May, the Zhejiang provincial government said it would begin to 'plan and advance' the canal's construction, aiming to turn the province into a national leader in inland water transport by 2035. If completed, the canal would connect Jiangxi province – a growing manufacturing hub for electric vehicles with abundant rare earth and copper reserves – to seaports in Zhejiang, one of China's wealthiest provinces. Advertisement Planned as a Class III waterway, the canal would be able to accommodate 1,000-tonne vessels, according to Ministry of Transport guidelines. Once operational, it could handle around 25 million tonnes of cargo annually, the ministry said.
