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Manchester Ship Canal

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning has created a series of films and animations looking at the lives of people who live and/or work along the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal. Each of the 19 films look at how they have used some form of computer based technology to help their lives. Maria Phillips who is visually impaired lives in Salford - "It's just not having to ask someone to do it for me. Not having to ask someone to read to me." AnneMarie Groenewald owns a South Africa Restaurant in Ellesmere Port. "I don't think I would have been able to survive if I didn't have a computer, to be able to run the restaurant and to be able to offer the foods. There's no other way we can do it but by searching the internet" Joe Butler: Daniel Adamson Preservation Society "It's an historic boat, it's a tug tender, it's the last remaining one in the UK - we can't allow it to go to scrap... we're just doing our little bit." Rakiya Rahman who offers Skype maths lessons across the world from Merseyside: "If I'm not cooking, cleaning or looking after the kids I'm on the computer. My husband is sick of it - if I'm not doing tutoring I'm building pages for the website." Mike Duddy, blogging about fishing on the Canal: "The blog post I've added is obviously entitled fishing on the ship canal with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. You can't beat originality in blog title."