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Marina residents could be evicted

RESIDENT boaters at a marina could be evicted as it does not have the necessary planning permission for people to live permanently on boats.

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Published: 13 August 2009

Girl pushed into canal

A TEENAGE girl was pushed into the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal as she walked along the towpath in the town by the basin.
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Published: 13 August 2009

More Wigan paving stolen

ONCE again thieves have stolen paving from besides the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Wigan.

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Published: 12 August 2009

Canal Watch for the Rochdale

ANYONE reading narrowboatworld will know that the Rochdale Canal is a favourite haunt for vandals, but it is getting so bad that a Canal Watch has been instigated by police and councils.

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Published: 12 August 2009

Money for the locks

OVER £5 millions is to be spent between November and March on maintenance and upgrading facilities of the locks on a single waterway—not BW locks however.

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Published: 12 August 2009

BW goes into the red

A stunned silence from user groups has greeted British Waterways 2008/9 Annual Report and Accounts with the realisation that reserves are being used to prop up its failing property businesses, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 August 2009

Another new marina in doubt

AFTER the refusal to grant planning permission for the new marina at Lantham on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, another seems in jeopardy, this time on the Stratford Canal.

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Published: 10 August 2009

Thieves who broke into boats jailed

TWO thieves who altogether broke into 18 boats on the River Great Ouse were quickly caught and have both been jailed.

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Published: 10 August 2009

No marina for Lanhom

FOR the second time planning permission for a marina on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Lathom has been refused.

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Published: 09 August 2009

BW cause popular narrowboat café to close

REALISING the success of Lorraine Fox's venture with a narrowboat café, British Waterways have now put it out to tender, closing her down.
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Published: 06 August 2009

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