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  "textContent": "On a misty winter’s day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound rescue operation. The sight starkly illustrated an ongoing battle to maintain the UK’s historic, yet deteriorating, waterways. Britain’s canal network “is facing pressure it has never faced […]\n\nThe post UK’s crumbling canals threatened with collapse appeared first on Digital Journal.",
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