A MAN who spent his life on water, first as a merchant seaman and then as a boater, running canal trips for disadvantaged children and community groups, had his perfect 'send-off' in a narrowboat coffin.
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JOHN Wonfor was so impressed by the work of the Macmillan nurses, who took care of his wife when suffering bowel cancer, that he has undertaken a six months canal cruise on little more than a motorised raft.
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FOLLOWING the closure of the Aylesbury Arm on the Grand Union Canal owing to the collapse of lock wall, now comes the closure of the Slough Arm, owing to the failing of a bridge.
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READERS may have noticed an article that we published concerning the Environment Agency's attitude to the restoration of the Avoncliff Mill on the Avon, that was later taken down.
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AQUEDUCT Marina at Nantwich now has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) installed by the North West Ambulance Service, able to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims.
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ONCE again a distraught mother has blamed the lack of fencing of a canal for her two years old son falling in, but a local council spokesman stated this was not feasible.
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THIEVES have delivered a huge blow to the progress of the Lichfield Canal restoration by stealing nearly £10,000 worth of equipment and tools used by its volunteers.
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RECENTLY narrowboatworld divulged that Canal & River Trust had failed to reveal costs associated with its illegal attempt to seize a boat and deprive a boater of his home (Cart publicizes its adversary), writes Allan Richards.
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THE Environment Agency has systematically time and time again thwarted any attempt to restore a mill on its waters on the Avon at Avoncliff, (EA waste over £500,000) continually pouring public money into its perverse attitude, with Tom Oliva writing:
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STAFF from various branches of Marks & Spencer had a very hard day's litter picking on the Wey around Guildford over the weekend.
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