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Ashing up the gates

THE article about 'ashing the gates' at the Caen Hill Flight in narrowboatworld has caused great interest, and British Waterways has been kind enough to supply us with photographs.

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Published: 21 July 2011

Best Thames lock

BOATERS using the Thames are being invited to vote for what they believe is the best kept lock.

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Published: 21 July 2011

Emails: Transfer Basingstoke

Reading your article 'Killing the Basingstoke', I would have thought it would make very good sense to transfer responsibility for the entire Basingstoke Canal to the new waterways charity!

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Published: 21 July 2011

English Heritage help

BRITISH Waterways has received £7,000 of funding from English Heritage to carry out maintenance and improvement work over three years on side ponds of Hanwell Flight on the Grand Union Canal.

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Published: 21 July 2011

No 'National' next year

THE long running national waterways festival organised by the Inland Waterways Association will not be held next year.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Don't do it

ONCE again there is the warning to would-be swimmers in the waterways from British Waterways not to do it!

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Published: 20 July 2011

Towpath rapist jailed

THE illegal immigrant Bangladesh man who raped a woman by the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley, and attempted a rape of another was given an indeterminate sentence at Preston Crown Court.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Drinkers sparked emergency operation

THREE drinkers leaping into the Ouse from a pub garden in York sparked off a full emergency operation after the men were seen in the water.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Who was the man?

THERE is curiosity surrounding the case of a drowned man in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Leeds on Saturday.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Commemorate cruise

IT WAS 100 years ago that Gem carried a cargo over the Cotswolds from Saul near Gloucester to Lechlade on the Thames, the last boat to do so before the waterway was closed.

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Published: 20 July 2011

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