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AS EASTER fast approaches, River Canal Rescue is reminding boaters to undertake preparatory checks before setting off on what could be their first journey of the year.

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Published: 23 March 2023

Reed beds in Gloucester Docks

THE Canal & River Trust tells it is boosting greenery and nature in Gloucester Docks with new floating reed beds in Victoria Basin.

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Published: 23 March 2023

Pull a Cuckoo to raise funds


Here’s a brilliant way to raise funds for your organisation or your favourite charity—gather a group and pull a narrowboat along the Chesterfield Canal.

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Published: 22 March 2023

Collapsed footbridge cleared

THE wooden footbridge that collapsed in the Paddington Arm has been cleared away.

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Published: 22 March 2023

New pumps to supply water for Bristol

THE Canal & River Trust is installing two new three-tonne pumps at Gloucester Docks to take water from the Severn to supply Bristol.

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Published: 20 March 2023

Sponging on the state

I OF COURSE realise that what I write is somewhat out of your regime, writes Geoffrey Bland.

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Published: 20 March 2023

Collapsed bridge closes Paddington Arm

A COLLAPSED footbridge has closed the Paddington Arm to navigation at Northolt.

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Published: 20 March 2023

Victor admits to getting his 'knickers in a twist'!

AFTER 23 years I reckon that for once I am allowed to get my 'knickers in a twist' as Stephen Bean so succulently described.

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Published: 19 March 2023

Are the mooring closures about healthy exercise?

THOUGH just minutes since we published about more closed boat moorings, two boaters have quickly responded.

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Published: 17 March 2023

Birmingham development to go ahead

THE BBC has received planing permission for the development of Digbeth’s historic Typhoo Tea Building into its new home in Birmingham.

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Published: 17 March 2023

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Latest

  • Smoke control comes into force for narrowboats in Bimingham
  • Three stoppages still ongoing
  • EA stops Bristol Floating Harbour funding
  • Braunston Customer Service Facility now closed
  • Marsworth Flight reopened
  • Stoppages on Rochdale and Tame Valley canals
  • Another paddle failure
  • Another broken paddle on the Rochdale Canal
  • Environment Agency clearing more abandoned boats off the Thames
  • Attack just off the Coventry Canal towpath
  • Another mile of the Stroudwater Canal in water
  • Ripon takes the record
  • Canal town best place to live in the North
  • Quick repair to lock cill
  • Getting through Beeston Lock
  • Will Penkridge Lock be open for Easter?
  • At last—a way off the Weaver
  • Nottingham Trent Basin to be lost
  • New waterside bridge in position
  • Unexpected conditions preventing reopening of Beeston Lock

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