Shropshire Star

Woman airlifted after Shropshire Union Canal fall

A woman in her 80s was airlifted to hospital with a leg injury after falling into the Shropshire Union Canal while boarding a boat.

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She fell between the towpath and a canal boat near Adderley, Market Drayton, just after 12.30pm yesterday.

Paramedics treated her for hypothermia and a leg injury.

She was flown to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.