Lyneal

AN AWARD-WINNING local charity which provides specially adapted canal boats to disabled people has launched a volunteer recruitment drive. The Lyneal Trust is holding an open day at its Lyneal Wharf operating base near Ellesmere, on Sunday, April 17 ...

... 18in-long baling prong at his Shropshire farm in February. It went straight through his body but missed all his major organs. Mr Heatley was airlifted to hospital with the inch-wide spike still in his body. He is now recovering at home in Lyneal ...

The man, who is in his 50s, was pulling plastic off bales of hay at a farm in Lyneal, near Ellesmere, when the accident happened. Two large baling prongs went through the man's back and pinned him against the hay bales. Emergency services took almost ...

The vessel, whose boat number in the pageant was 1,000, is owned by the Lyneal Trust, a charity which provides holidays and canal boat trips for people with disabilities and their families. Money raised as a result of their trip will be donated to the ...

The Shropshire Lad narrow boat has travelled from Lyneal Wharf, North Shropshire down the Llangollen Canal and all the way to the Thames in time for the Diamond Jubilee pageant. Manned by military personnel, some injured in Afghanistan, the boat has ...

On June 3, over 1000 boats will gather on the Thames for a pageant to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Two canal boats from Shropshire taking part in the flotilla set off on their arduous three week journey which will cover over 240 miles and 200 ...