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Leeds Festival success

THE fourth Leeds Waterfront Festival, combined for the very first time with Leeds Community Foundation's Dragon Boat event, proved to be a huge success.

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Published: 29 June 2011

Chesterfield Canal wins

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust has won the Jubilee Peoples' Millions, and now has a cheque for £60,000, it was announced yesterday, Tuesday.

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Published: 29 June 2011

Testing the Droitwich

Ahead of the full reopening of the Droitwich Canals, nb Atlas, towing the flat Cricket made a test run from Droitwich to Hanbury, providing valuable last minute feedback to British Waterway engineers that has enabled the canal to be declared open, writes Kevin McKniff.

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Published: 29 June 2011

Useless design

It is a joy to see British Waterway on the Llangollen replacing the muddy puddles produced by their last ideas at what a towpath and lock surrounds should be made of (grit) with some new brick quadrants.

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Published: 29 June 2011

Keeping secrets

THE Information Commissioners Office (ICO) have had cause to write to British Waterways concerning breaches of the Freedom of Information Act.

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Published: 29 June 2011

Middlewich Boat Festival saved

THE Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival, that has had a rocky time through lack of money, is now secured for the next few years.

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Published: 27 June 2011

Next stop—in the canal!

IF IT had not been for engineer Mike Clarke seeing the state of a railway retaining wall, a train could well have landed in the Grand Union Canal at Linslade.

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Published: 27 June 2011

Drowning not suspicious

THE death of a woman found drowned in the Grand Union Canal at Leicester was not suspicious, an inquest has heard.

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Published: 27 June 2011

Taking it too far?

FOR those of you absolutely narrowboat crazy, you could go the whole hog and even be buried in a coffin the shape of a narrowboat.

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Published: 27 June 2011

Arsonists fire three boats

THREE boats were destroyed by fire at Bordesley Basin on the Grand Union Canal in Birmingham this week.

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Published: 25 June 2011

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