{"id":358592,"date":"2026-01-08T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358592\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:16:07","slug":"narrowboat-family-still-stuck-after-shropshire-canal-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358592\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrowboat family still stuck after Shropshire canal collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family has experienced a lot of things on their travels, but she said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve never been transported on a road, so it will be an experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She thanked staff at Whitchurch marina for their help and said the team was dealing with &#8220;quite a list of people who want to try and get off&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five boats were ready to go now, she said, but it would cost her family \u00a32,240 per boat, even with a discount arranged by the marina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their insurance will not cover the move, because, as she put it: &#8220;We have a choice, we can stay here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family said they were &#8220;not comfortable&#8221; with the idea of an online fundraising appeal to cover the costs, but they have invited their YouTube followers to make small donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family has experienced a lot of things on their travels, but she said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve never been transported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-358592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}