THE noise levels being created by the revellers in the famous Wigan Pier pub, that is a well known night club, caused it to be closed, but it is on the market again.
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IT IS scandalous that use of the canal was not even considered to move these concrete units. ['Ideal' canal ignored in favour of lorries—narrowboatworld 9/03/12.]
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I am surprised that a contractor is allowed to carry out work, and have sludge spilling onto the highway. [Dredging makes road dangerous—narrowboatworld 7th March, 2012.]
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SOME anglers will go to any lengths to try and get away with fishing in the closed season, but one angler, fishing the river section of the Kennet & Avon Canal went too far, it costing him £500.
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THE canalside Big Lock pub on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Middlewich has reopened after it closure for refurbishment of its interior.
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NOW I have heard it all—and as usual, from Allan Richards' reliable ear-to-the-ground source, writes Ian Smith.
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LININGS for a Crossrail tunnel portal cast at a works by the side of a canal that are needed just two miles away, again by the canal, are to be transported by lorries along an already overcrowded road.
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JUST over 200 years ago Samuel Whitbread, Member of Parliament for Bedford, was the driving force behind the plan to create a waterway linking the Grand Junction Canal (now the Grand Union) at Milton Keynes with the River Great Ouse at Bedford.
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IT HAS been confirmed that the headless body pulled out of the Regents Canal at Hackney is that of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie.
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THE National Waterways Museum, has lots of events lined up for boaters and visitors during 2012.
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