{"id":5914,"date":"2025-12-22T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:11:01","slug":"major-incident-declared-over-shropshire-canal-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5914","title":{"rendered":"Major incident declared over Shropshire canal &#8216;sinkhole&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A major incident has been declared over what police have called a sinkhole at a canal in Shropshire, leaving boats either stricken in a gaping cavity or teetering on the edge of a steep drop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Pictures appear to show that the structural integrity of a stretch of waterway in the Chemistry area of Whitchurch has completely given way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two narrowboats are said to have sunk into the hole, into which water looks to have drained completely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was responding to a landslip and confirmed a canal was affected. There are no reports of casualties, and people nearby are being supported by fire crews, according to West Mercia Police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Major #incident #declared #Shropshire #canal #sinkhole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major incident has been decl&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}