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Tom Puddings return to Leeds

FOR THE first time in nearly 30 years, the historic Tom Puddings  will return to Leeds as part of this year's Leeds Waterfront Festival celebrations.

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Published: 14 July 2010

Drunk jumped into canal

THE police had to rescue a man who threatened to take his own life, then jumped from a bridge into the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Wigan.

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Published: 14 July 2010

Unlicensed on the Regent's

THOUGH British Waterways boasts of its clearance of unlicensed boats and those permanently on lock moorings on the London waterways, boaters are still discovering plenty.

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Published: 14 July 2010

What's the point?

THE Waterways Recovery Group recently spent two weeks working on a section of the Montgomery Canal, destroying a lush landscape, for little avail.

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Published: 14 July 2010

BW issues its L&L closure notice

AS PREDICTED in narrowboatworld, British Waterways has issued the closure notice of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal for Monday 2nd August.

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Published: 14 July 2010

What does public opinion matter?

LAST year there was a meeting at the Corn Exchange at Devizes to consider British Waterways scheme of erecting two statues, one at each end of the Kennet & Avon Canal. One at Reading and one at Bath, to celebrate the 200th year of the waterway.

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Published: 14 July 2010

Speeding cyclist nearly cost toddler his life

AS A speeding cyclist came down the towpath of the Grand Union Canal in Leicester, a toddler hastily stepped aside,  fell into the water, and nearly drowned.

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Published: 12 July 2010

Money for the Kennet & Avon

BRITISH Waterways, working with the Trustees of the Town, Manor of Hungerford and Natural England, will be carrying out a £400,000 project this summer.

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Published: 12 July 2010

Old canal found

THE city of canals—Birmingham—had more canals than first thought, with another unearthed.

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Published: 12 July 2010

Macclesfield closed at swing bridge

THE powered swing bridge at Oakgrove (Bridge 49) on the Macclesfield Canal has been damaged, and is in the closed position to boats, Ralph Freeman writes.

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Published: 12 July 2010

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