Engineers assess damage as heavy rains cause first major breach of Bridgewater Canal since 1970s

Engineers are assessing the scale of damage to a canal built more than 250 years ago after flood waters caused a dramatic collapse of part of its elevated embankment in Cheshire.

The Bridgewater Canal, which was previously used to transport coal but is now a leisure waterway, caved in near Dunham Massey in the first major breach of the waterway for 54 years.