CANAL engineers rushed to Blackburn after the embankment started to shift next to the new Asda superstore. Trippers were hit with Easter misery as the engineers closed the stretch of water which runs past the town's Waterside development at Lower Audley.
It was revealed that Asda was to be asked to pay for the damage because the bank was weakened when part of it was dug away for the new store development.
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