TV crew to make watery landmark a star in Griff's new BBC show

Sep 18 2008 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

STANDEDGE Tunnel – the highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel in Britain – will be a TV star on a programme about rivers.

The tunnel was the scene for an episode of a new BBC television series, Rivers, presented by award-winning actor Griff Rhys Jones (pictured).

Filming began on board the Standedge Tunnel and Visitor Centre boat in Marsden. The crew embarked on a journey through the tunnel to Diggle.