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New Heritage Information Room

AS PART of the development of Stourport Canal Basins as a major tourist destination, the temporary Heritage Information Room at the basin is to moved and recreated.

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Published: 21 December 2009

Boaters' birds

BIRDS? No, not our normal kind, but the feathered variety that frequent the canal banks.

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Published: 21 December 2009

Cultural quarter for the Oxford

THERE are plans for a 'cultural quarter' by the side of the Oxford Canal in Banbury that is being helped by £60,000 from the council.

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Published: 21 December 2009

Where the money went

IT SEEMS that Nick Hurd, the MP for Ruislip, had picked up on Allan Richards' Money down the drain' article in narrowboatworld.

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Published: 19 December 2009

Rochdale closure extended

IN ADDITION to the closure of the Rochdale Canal due to the investigation of a leaking embankment, the closure has been extended to cover a dangerous building.

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Published: 18 December 2009

'Canal Boy' gets five years

THE thief who was controversially sent on a canal holiday as a teenager in a bid to steer him away from crime has been jailed for five years.

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Published: 17 December 2009

A slight problem

THE 'WaterSpace' basin proposed for Daventry will have leisure facilities for 'visitors who come to the town on narrowboats'.

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Published: 17 December 2009

Rent free fishing

THOUGH it was in April that  ammonia leaked into the Staffs & Worcs and Shropshire Union canals, British Waterways have granted anglers a rent free 'holiday' until the matter is cleared up.

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Published: 17 December 2009

How stupid is that?

WITH the Thames listed as unsafe for navigation, a pair took a wooden cruiser on the river and finished up on Teddington Weir after it lost power.

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Published: 16 December 2009

Pocklington Canal 'safe'

FOLLOWING wide consultation, a new agreement as been reached on the future of the Pocklington Canal.

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Published: 16 December 2009

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Latest

  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed
  • Long closure caused by building demolition
  • Just one puppy lived of three dumped on canal towpath
  • Could be a long stoppage at Kennet & Avon lock
  • How the boat rescue was undertaken
  • Rain, rain and more rain
  • Two problems at Keadby Lock
  • Boaters emptying cassette toilets into canal
  • Stoke-on-Trent museums at risk
  • Seven months closure ends
  • Moorers taking part in Dogs Behaving Very Badly
  • Another quickie
  • Illegal floating encampment activity removed

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