With 59 vehicles recovered...

With 59 vehicles recovered, experts reckon the job is only half done and say another 60 are on the bottom, plus a large caravan. Local authority bosses are blaming youths, who see how far a stolen vehicle can be propelled from the bank before it drops into the water.

A spokeswoman for Newry and Mourne Council told us: "We clean up the canal every 10 years, and allocated a budget for the work. However, after 50 cars had been taken out, we had to ask for more money."