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Towpath mugging

A TEENAGER was mugged on the towpath of the Rochdale Canal at Todmorden on Tuesday and left very shaken.

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Published: 15 October 2009

Boaters celebrate 200 years of GU

DRESSED in old costumes of the day, boaters and visitors celebrated 200 years of the Grand Union Canal on Monday (12th October).

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Published: 14 October 2009

IWA to celebrate Tom Rolt centenery

NEXT year Inland Waterways Association is to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Tom Rolt, one of its 'founding fathers'

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Published: 14 October 2009

More calls for compensation

THE closure of the Shropshire Union Canal by the leak at Shebdon Embankment has led to more calls for compensation from Market Drayton's mayor.

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Published: 12 October 2009

Good for Hollinwood restoration

THOUGH the Hollinwood Canal is infilled by Manchester Road Bridge in Droylsden, the possibility of its eventual restoration has been guaranteed by the erection of a  footbridge over the former waterway at an height to allow boats.

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Published: 12 October 2009

Increase in Thames licences

THE Environment Agency tells that the issue of boat licences on the Thames 'has risen 30%'.

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Published: 12 October 2009

Prism Cosec

THE minutes of British Waterways board for March 2009 record some interesting information, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 09 October 2009

Canalside developments hit the buffers

IT WAS only a few years ago that canalside developments were the great money-making endeavours for many developers, but most have fallen by the wayside.

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Published: 09 October 2009

Protest in vain

RESIDENT boater Ian Gill, who has lived on his boat for the past 15 years on the Kennet & Avon Canal without paying any mooring fee whatsoever is complaining bitterly now that BW has caught up with him.

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Published: 08 October 2009

Bodies in the waterways

TWO bodies were discovered in the waterways last week, with one in the Grand Union Canal and one in the Montgomery Canal.

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Published: 08 October 2009

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