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New Fri 14 Aug 15 23:41 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - VxFan

Either that, or Rattle is trying to tunnel his way to Australia.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-33940661
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New Fri 14 Aug 15 23:50 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - rtj70
Nah he's tunnelling to Spain.

I'm surprised nobody ended up in the hole! A busy bit of road.
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 08:16 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - smokie
Police are looking into it... hohoho
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 09:06 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Zero
Get a pothole int he south and no-bidy gives a rat, get one in the north and the northern softies can't cope and hole news programmes are devoted to it.

(hole news?) chuckle
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 10:01 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - BiggerBadderDave
Can we fill it with illegal immigrants?
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 14:56 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - sajid
>> Can we fill it with illegal immigrants?


or something Ratteling the road to bits !
Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 15 Aug 15 at 21:10
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 15:14 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Zero
how the hell are we going to get illegal immigrants to go to Manchester. Its not the place they have in mind when they are scaling the fence at Calias.
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 15:19 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Harleyman
>> how the hell are we going to get illegal immigrants to go to Manchester. Its
>> not the place they have in mind when they are scaling the fence at Calias.
>>
>>

Perhaps we should mention it. Might put them off.
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 15:35 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Armel Coussine
>> Perhaps we should mention it. Might put them off.

If that doesn't put them off, you could try abandoning them in the depths of Wales Harleyman. That'll learn them.
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New Sun 16 Aug 15 00:59 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Harleyman
>> >> Perhaps we should mention it. Might put them off.
>>
>> If that doesn't put them off, you could try abandoning them in the depths of
>> Wales Harleyman. That'll learn them.
>>

They don't bother coming here. Word's got around that New South Wales won't have them so they think we're the same. Far be it from me to enlighten them.
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New Sat 15 Aug 15 21:10 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - VxFan
>> Can we fill it with illegal immigrants?

Not big enough.
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New Sun 16 Aug 15 01:00 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Armel Coussine
>> Not big enough.

Good point Vx. Most illegal immigrants are quite small. It would take a lot of them to fill a really huge sinkhole.
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New Mon 17 Aug 15 10:00 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Mapmaker
Why is it a sinkhole? Surely it's a hole.
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New Mon 17 Aug 15 14:46 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - smokie
I see from the Beeb today that

"A repair plan is "now in place" to stabilise the hole and make it watertight so engineers can repair the damage."

and reassuringly that

"The road will remain closed in both directions while work takes place"
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New Mon 17 Aug 15 15:03 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - VxFan
>> Why is it a sinkhole? Surely it's a hole.

Because the ground beneath it has sunken. If it were just a "hole", it would indicate someone has dug it.
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New Mon 17 Aug 15 15:11 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Armel Coussine
>> Because the ground beneath it has sunken. If it were just a "hole", it would indicate someone has dug it.

I have the impression that sinkholes appear when the ground collapses into underground caverns or quite often, and perhaps in this case, old deep coal mine workings.
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New Mon 17 Aug 15 15:52 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - rtj70
In this case, it will probably be related to a culvert carrying part of one of the rivers under Manchester. Manchester has a few sections of rivers underneath it.

For example, the university area on Oxford Road is in an area originally called Chorlton on Medlock. The river Medlock is under there.... I never noticed any part of it when I was at the University of Manchester.

In fact it's the River Medlock that flows near the A57(M)/Mancunian Way where the sink hole appeared. There's a section under the 'UMIST' conference centre on Sackville Street.

www.google.co.uk/maps/search/chorlton+on+medlock/@53.472855,-2.2284853,15.64z?hl=en
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New Mon 17 Aug 15 16:34 
 Huge sinkhole closes Manchester road - Armel Coussine
Thanks rtj.

The layers of earlier building and digging under old European cities are a wonderful record of the past, especially rich and chaotic in the industrial Midlands and North.

Bath is worth a look for those who haven't seen it.
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