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Urgent tests underway after Walsall canal cyanide spill

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Sodium cyanide was confirmed as the chemical spilled into the waterway in Walsall .

People have been urged not to go near a long section of the canal network and towpaths from the middle of the borough to Birmingham .

Authority 's interim director of public health, Nadia Inglis , said they were “doing things cautiously but as quickly as we can’t” Council leader Garry Perry said it was too early to speculate how the substance entered the canal.

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