In pictures: Hundreds of fish rescued three months after dramatic breach of Whitchurch canal
A specialist team stepped in to rescue hundreds of fish stranded in a flooded field after a major canal breach in Whitchurch.
The Canal & River Trust (CRT) embarked on a mission yesterday (March 18) to safely return hundreds of fish that had been swept into a neighbouring field during a breach of the Llangollen Canal in Whitchurch.
The breach days before Christmas had caused an estimated 100 million gallons of water to escape the canal and pour into a farmer's field.
A temporary lake - six feet deep in places - formed in the field, which had been home to dozens of sheep until a few days before the catastrophe.
