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Wide beams on the Oxford now costing CaRT

ALLOWING wide beams on the narrow Oxford Canal has proved a bad decision for Canal & River Trust.

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Published: 28 March 2022

Part of Grand Union to be ‘Wellbeing Way’

THE Grand Union Canal at Southall is to be transformed into ‘Wellbeing Way’.

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Published: 28 March 2022

Victor is not taken in by the Bargees

YESTERDAY, (Saturday) the National Bargees Travellers Association organised a march to the Canal & River Trust London Offices to complain.

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Published: 27 March 2022

Middle Level navigation licences

THE bill has since been passed into law and the new by-laws 2022 approved by the Secretary of State for DEFRA on 28th May 2021, writes Kelvin Alexander-Duggan.

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Published: 25 March 2022

Oxford Canal lift bridge fails again

AUBREY'S Lift Bridge (221) on the Oxford Canal has failed again.

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Published: 25 March 2022

Works starts on Dudley No 2 restoration

THE Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, has started the project to build a new winding hole to enable boats to enter the restored Dudley No 2 Canal.

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Published: 25 March 2022

No hurry with Ripon lock repair

THOUGH there was a system of allowing boaters through the closed Oxclose Lock on the Ripon Canal, it was not well operated, we were told.

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Published: 24 March 2022

Chesterfield Canal Trust gets £5.3 millions

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust is delighted to have been awarded £5.3m from the Staveley Towns Fund.

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Published: 24 March 2022

Not joined-up thinking

ONE boater believes that there is not joined-up thinking regarding the Anderton Lift and the Weaver.

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Published: 24 March 2022

Keeping boats moving—on an empty pound!

THE Canal & River Trust really mean to keep boats moving these days—even when no water in the pound!

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Published: 24 March 2022

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  • Possible boatyard for Oxford after 20 years
  • Four paddle failures already this month
  • De-wintering tips from River Canal Rescue
  • 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

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