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Pole vaulting over canals

EVERY SUMMER PEOPLE gather at a canal in Holland to attempt to pole vault across it.

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Published: 09 July 2025

A very strange one

BOATERS OFTEN get strange stoppage notices, but there was a very strange one concerning the Ouse.

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Published: 09 July 2025

Another sexual attack by the Nottingham Canal

FOLLOWING ON THE previous two sexual attacks on the Nottingham Canal comes yet another.

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Published: 07 July 2025

Grand Union Canal closed

TEN MILES OF THE Grand Union Canal are now closed to navigation.

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Published: 07 July 2025

South Stratford Canal closed

THE LACK OF WATER is now affecting the southern canals with the South Stratford closed.

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Published: 07 July 2025

No way to remove sinking narrowboat

A NARROWBOAT ON THE CAM that is sinking cannot be removed.

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Published: 07 July 2025

Police and dive team descend on Manchester canal

AFTER A CORDON was set up by the Rochdale Canal in Manchester the body of a man was pulled from the water.

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Published: 07 July 2025

Victor believes these date mix-ups are not at all helpful

SALTERHEBBLE GUILLOTINE LOCK on the Calder & Hebble Navigation broke down on the 17th June.

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Published: 05 July 2025

Dry weather navigation update

FOLLOWING THE driest spring since 1893* and continued hot sunny weather, with parts of England already officially in drought, the Canal & River Trust is advising that water availability across some parts of the canal network is under strain.

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Published: 04 July 2025

Plot of land by Leicester Section sold

A SMALL PLOT of land by the Leicester Section in the city by Little Glen Bridge has been sold.

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Published: 04 July 2025

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Latest

  • 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
  • Canal & River Trust supports Waterways Chaplaincy
  • Liverpool Link closes from May
  • Fish rescue begins at canal breach
  • Body found in river after four months
  • Litterpickers carry on the good work
  • Sewage discharged into Thames for six weeks
  • Visitor Centre will remain open
  • Rochdale closed again
  • Six months to repair Avon bridge
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