Ashton Canal: Last News

Residents on a quiet residential street in Tameside have spoken of their shock after the bomb squad were called in. It on The scare began on Pottinger Street in Ashton-under-Lyne at around midday on Sunday (March 24).

A man's body is understood to have been found in a canal in Ashton-under-Lyne on Tuesday afternoon (June 20). Emergency services swarmed the Asda car park, beside the Ashton Canal, at around 4.30pm.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death in Tameside. Detectives launched a manhunt after the 51-year-old victim was killed in Droylsden on Friday afternoon.

Families and communities in Greater Manchester have been left reeling after two people were stabbed to death in two separate incidents less than 48 hours apart. On Wednesday night 21-year-old Salah Eldin Adam was killed in Old Trafford.

When you think of city living, what most people picture is excited yuppies sipping natural wine, wearing sunglasses, with some tapas -or a raucous rave in a basement below a warehouse in a soon-to-be-gentrified industrial estate. What they might not think of, however, is the simple joy a nesting bird can bring.

Plans for an extended residents' parking scheme around the Etihad Stadium have been put forward. Most streets around the east Manchester campus containing Manchester City's Stadium currently have restrictions on parking on match days and on other event days such as concerts.

direct to your inboxPlans have been revealed to regenerate one of Manchester's best-known former cotton mills.Brunswick Mill was built on Bradford Road in Ancoats around 1840 and was one of the largest of its kind.At that time, historic Lancashire was at the heart of the cotton industry and the powerhouse behind the nation's industrial revolution.The mill once held some 276 carding machines, the textile process by which fibres are untwisted and separated into a uniform fabric.The imposing structure, which fronts onto the Ashton Canal, has had many owners over the years including the Lancashire Cotton Corporation but finally ceased production in the 1960s.Now owned by developer Maryland Securities, it is home to a number of tenants on

Plans for the first affordable shared-ownership apartments in Manchester city centre have been unanimously approved.Clarion Housing Group had sought planning permission to build 66 flats in an apartment block alongside the Ashton Canal.The homes inside the split-level building, which will include a roof terrace, will be aimed at graduates, young professionals and other ‘economically-active households’.A total of 46 two-bedroom apartments will be provided alongside 17 one-bedroom flats and three two-bedroom townhouses.Rachel Hollins, head of partnerships at Clarion, told Manchester's planning committee that shared ownership is designed to help first-time buyers onto the property ladder.“The proposal is for all 66 dwellings to be shared

RSPCA recovered two dead and three sick geese, which later had to be put down, from the canal on Monday afternoon.

RSPCA said they had recovered two dead and three sick geese from the Ashton Canal on Monday afternoon.