THE Mon & Brec Canal is closed at the start of the cruising season due to a leak in the pound that was repaired after the 2007 bank collapse.
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BOATER John West has received a commendation from Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton for rescuing a family from the Thames.
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BOATERS working the locks from Diglis Basin on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal should take extra care this coming season.
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AFTER four weeks on the bottom of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, the narrowboat Stepping Stone was re-floated yesterday (Thursday), Peter Lloyd tells us.
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WHEN a towpath walker alerted the emergency services to a body in the Union Canal at Linlithgow, everything went on full alert.
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ANOTHER boater on the Thames has saved a drowning man in the river—the second within a month.
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A WOMAN who was seduced into the idyllic life of waterway living had a rude awakening into its realities when she took to the Avon in flood conditions, and had to be rescued by firefighters.
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A TEENAGER was seen to stagger onto the ice of the Union Canal in Merchiston, and fall through it into the water at 7am on Tuesday morning.
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FOR THE first time in over 70 years, there is a narrowboat on the Grantham Canal, but alas not because the waterway has been reconnected to the Trent.
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BRITISH Waterways staff are well used to dragging supermarket trolleys and the like from the waterways, but a complete box trailer?
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