AS PART of the Bridgewater Motor Boat Club's cruise to support the Tom Rolt Centenary celebrations at Chester, 31 of its members brought their boats back along the Manchester Ship Canal.
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THE Environment Agency has built eel passes on the Nene, and Kyme Eau to help the creatures migrate around flood defences.
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HOT on the heels of the closure of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, comes news that the Weaver too is closed by a problem at Saltersford Lock.
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THE Birmingham & Fazeley Canal was closed on Friday (2nd July) with the long pound above Minworth Flight very low and unnavigable, after being breached.
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THE bodge job by the contractors at Marple where they left debris in the canal was not to improve moorings but the towpath!
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LOCAL MP Clive Betts will be visiting the waterway in Sheffield to see the start of the Adsetts Canal Project summer clean-up.
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THE ongoing emails from boaters to their MP's on British Waterways' lack of expenditure on maintenance is causing questions to be raised in the House of Commons, Alan Tilbury tells us.
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AROUND 30 narrowboats took to the Manchester Ship Canal on their return from the IWA Tom Rolt's Centenary Rally at Chester.
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A DUCKLING caused a great deal of effort by many people after it had come foul of the debris in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
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