A number of questions surrounding the death of the 44-year-old, who had no known friends or family, remain unanswered after a coroner concluded he was unable to say how he ended up in the water.

Rescue teams are searching the Manchester Ship Canal for a seventh day after a man entered the water. Emergency services descended on Irlam Locks, in Salford, at 8.40pm last Thursday evening ...

United Utilities has won a long-running court battle to run a new sewage pipe into the Manchester Ship Canal. Water company United Utilities was first granted a compulsory purchase order (CPO) for ...