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Remove the blockage—or else!

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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Published: 01 March 2010

Leak closes Mon & Brec again

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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Published: 27 February 2010

Award for boater

BOATER John West has received a commendation from Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton for rescuing a family from the Thames.

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Published: 26 February 2010

Boaters watch out!

BOATERS working the locks from Diglis Basin on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal should take extra care this coming season.

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Published: 26 February 2010

Out she comes

AFTER  four weeks on the bottom of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, the narrowboat Stepping Stone was re-floated yesterday (Thursday), Peter Lloyd tells us.

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Published: 26 February 2010

Plastic boobs caused alert

WHEN a towpath walker alerted the emergency services to a body in the Union Canal at Linlithgow, everything went on full alert.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Boaters save drowing men

ANOTHER boater on the Thames has saved a drowning man in the river—the second within a month.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Beginner had to be rescued

A WOMAN who was  seduced into the idyllic life of waterway living had a rude awakening into its realities when she took to the Avon in flood conditions, and had to be rescued by firefighters.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Teenager staggered into canal

A TEENAGER was seen to stagger onto the ice of the Union Canal in Merchiston, and fall through it into the water at 7am on Tuesday morning.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Narrowboat—on the Grantham!

FOR THE  first time in over 70 years, there is a narrowboat on the Grantham Canal, but alas not because the waterway has been reconnected to the Trent.

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Published: 25 February 2010

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