FAILING to obtain a bond from the developers of a 'prestigious' waterside development, Wakefield taxpayers are left with a big bill after the developers went bust.
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MANY of you will possibly remember the major breach on the Stourbridge Canal that was eventually repaired and then earlier this year breached again.
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BRITISH Waterways has warned about cyclists problems on the Regents and Grand Union towpaths, and a report has called for money to make the roads streets and paths adjacent to the canals safer for cyclists.
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PETROL generators and the like have caused nine boat fires in 2009, the Boat Safety Scheme reveals. A dramatic increase from just one the year previously.
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THE Waterway Museum at Gloucester is running a special tea cruise along the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal on Easter Sunday.
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TRIBUTES have been flooding in to the OwnerShips website following the death of its managing director Allen Mathews, writes Allan Richards. Allen Mathews was the man who invented the concept of shared ownership and proved the sceptics wrong.
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THE invasive quick growing weed, Floating Pennywort, firmly established in the canals and rivers of the South and Midlands, is now spreading North.
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WHEN Peter Lloyd kindly sent us the reports and photographs of the narrowboat that sunk outside its marina, we included his blog address, as a 'thank you'.
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THE NEWS that Cambridge County Council still have the access to and from the Middle Levels blocked has enraged the Middle Level Commissioners.
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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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