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New guide to Lancaster Canal

THE guide to the Lancaster Canal has now been updated with new text and illustrations and is now available.

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Published: 19 April 2017

Fazeley office closed

THE Fazeley Waterway office on the junction of the Birmingham & Fazeley and Coventry canals is now closed.

This was permanently shut at Easter, and though the water point and Elsan facilities are still available, the rubbish compound is closed, with boaters told not to leave rubbish, Keith Gudgin tells us.

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Published: 19 April 2017

Free hire boating sessions

DRIFTERS Waterway Holidays have combined with Canal & River Trust to give would-be hirers free trial sessions from many bases across the system.

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Published: 19 April 2017

Trip boat's 40th year

EASTER Monday saw the celebration of the the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust's trip boat, Jubilee, that has been operating trips along the waterway for 40 years.

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Published: 19 April 2017

Man stabbed on towpath

A WALKER on the towpath of the Trent & Mersey Canal in Burton-on-Trent was shocked to find a man bleeding from stab wounds lying on the towpath above Dallow Lock.

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Published: 19 April 2017

'Rules don't refer to us'

IT IS VERY obvious that there are many boaters who firmly believe that rules just do not apply to them, allowing them to moor where they want, for how long they want and break a few more rules in the meantime.

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Published: 18 April 2017

Wife drowned securing boat's ropes

THERE has been a most tragic end to a family’s Easter hire boat holiday when a man heard a splash in the dark and discovered his wife had fallen in and he was unable to locate her in the dark

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Published: 17 April 2017

Campaign to close the Bridgewater?

STRICT restrictions brought in by the owners of the Bridgewater Canal are leaving boaters with the distrinct impression that its owners are intent upon closing the waterway to boating.

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Published: 17 April 2017

Victor: Here to stay

LIKE it or lump it, my friends, the new look narrowboatworld is here to stay.

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Published: 16 April 2017

The real cost of boating

DURING 2012 we published the following article based on the actual cost of operating a 54ft narrowboat under the then British Waterways, to acquaint would-be buyers with the actual cost per year of owning and operating a narrowboat:

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Published: 15 April 2017

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  • Water, water, everywhere
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  • 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
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  • 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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