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Girl kicks swan in vile attack caught on camera as police chief issues appeal to track her down Girl was part of a group hanging around by a canal in Limehouse, East London Footage shows her kicking the swan and following it as it hides behind a boat An onlooker is then pushed in the … Read more
Water stupid idea! Moment two German tourists are caught swimming in Venice’s Grand Canal on same day Italy opened borders after lockdown – before being fined £400 each Augusto Maurandi filmed the two men swimming in the Grand Canal yesterday He said swimming in the canal in Venice is banned and the men were fined … Read more
Police hunt ‘canal pusher’ gang after pregnant woman and teenage boys were attacked and shoved into water within days Two 14-year-old boys were set upon by a gang of up to 15 bat-wielding thugs They were walking along Netherton Canal in Liverpool at 6.50pm on Tuesday Ryan (not his real name) was hit on the back … Read more
The body of a nine-year-old autistic boy found drowned in a Florida canal is also said to have shown signs of head trauma. Alejandro Ripley’s mother Patricia, 45, faked her son’s abduction after trying to drown him twice, police say. Witnesses rescued the boy from a canal the first time; the second attempt ended in … Read more
A teenager has been hailed a hero after diving into a canal and saving a drowning toddler. Courageous Ryley Ferguson, 15, was walking his dogs when he spotted 15-month-old Reggie Hampton topple into the water. He immediately cast off his shoes and coat and swam to the other side of the Aire and Calder Navigation, … Read more
Bizarre half-alligator, half-fish creature which can grow up to ten feet in length is found on British canal path Caroline Brown, 51, spotted the carcass on the footpath in Risca, south Wales The bizarre creature had long snout and razor-sharp teeth with the body of a fish It is now thought to be alligator gar usually … Read more
Fearless police officer jumps into freezing canal in St Petersburg and crawls over cracking ice to rescue helpless man Andrey Postnikov recorded clip from the side of the Griboedov Canal in Russia The man, who appears to have fallen from bridge, is lying motionless on the ice Officer heroically pulls him from water before he was … Read more
Police release chilling CCTV of murder victim’s final moments before he was viciously attacked and thrown in a canal – as homicide detectives try to piece together his movements Darren Round was found in water in Kings Norton, Birmingham, on February 15 A post mortem revealed he suffered facial injuries consistent with an assault Homicide … Read more
The Briare canal, dug by 12,000 labourers between 1604 and 1640 to link the Upper Loire valley and the Seine, is the oldest in France. Once a major trade and transport artery, nowadays the Briare loops through the middle of bucolic nowhere. As soon as the opulent barge Renaissance had crossed the Loire on M. … Read more