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First closure of the year!

ALL us boaters must realise that with a closure already on New Year's Day, it is not setting a good beginning for the state of Canal & River Trust's navigations for the rest of the year!

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Published: 01 January 2018

Summit reservoirs still low

THE restrictions on the summit pound of the Grand Union Canal are still in force with the three reservoirs still not having reached capacity.

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Published: 01 January 2018

Happy New Year!

MAY I wish all you readers a Happy (and Healthy) New Year, and our grateful thanks to all you contributors who continue to make narrowboatworld Your Voice of the Waterways. Tom Crossley.

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Published: 01 January 2018

Disgusted by state of Oxford Canal

I HAVE just come across your *site and I see that you allow boaters to write their own views, and would appreciate it if you would include mine, writes David Thorley.
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Published: 29 December 2017

I dread to think

LOOKING back over the past year at the way the waterways have deteriorated, I dread to think what 2018 will bring, writes Tom Crossley.

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Published: 29 December 2017

Encouraging use of the less known parts of the BCN

THE Birmingham Canal Navigations Society is organising two Explorer Cruises thus continuing to encourage the use of the less travelled parts and to discover the pleasures of the little used canals of the northern BCN.

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Published: 27 December 2017

Man falls in canal and dies after altercation

A MAN involved in an altercation fell into the Staffs & Worcs Canal at Kidderminster, and drowned, with it understood, three youths running off.

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Published: 27 December 2017

Boats getting through the summit pound

BOATS are managing to get through the summit pound of the Grand Union Canal, Howard Clarke reports.

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Published: 27 December 2017

Another attack on wood burners

ANOTHER attack on wood burning stoves in the capital is being launched in the form of a government investigation.

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Published: 25 December 2017

Caldon Canal closed for two months

THE repairs to Bedford Street Bridge (2) on the Caldon Canal have been amended resulting in the waterway being closed for two months.

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Published: 25 December 2017

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Latest

  • Deeply regret but illness causes lack of publication
  • Flood warning on the Trent
  • Water, water, everywhere
  • Still no paddles for lock on Glasson Branch
  • More problems at Penkridge Lock
  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • CafĂ© turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • 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

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