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Work starts on Elland Bridge

WORK has now started on the re-building of Elland Bridge over the Calder & Hebble Navigation that was severely damaged in the Boxing Day floods.

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Published: 21 April 2016

Sheffield & Tinsley problems

THE Sheffield & Tinsley Canal that is closed owing to work on Lock No. 2 will not be open today (Thursday) as promised.

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Published: 21 April 2016

How did it get there?

THERE is a mystery on how the machine, known as a cherry picker, ended up in the Dudley No. 2 Canal. (Contractor's plant in canal).
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Published: 21 April 2016

Tribute to Avon restoration champion

ALL the boat traffic on the Avon at Startford-on-Avon came to a halt this week as the procession of the man who championed the re-opening of the waterway to navigation was laid to rest.

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Published: 21 April 2016

Oxford closed at Claydon

THE failure of the Top Lock of the rather battered Claydon Flight on the Oxford Canal has caused the waterway to be closed until it is repaired.

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Published: 20 April 2016

More towpath refreshments

IN ADDITION to the 'hat tipping' on the 'busy' Oxford towpath, Canal & River Trust have undertaken a similar exercise on the towpath at Slaithwaite on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

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Published: 20 April 2016

Drowning teenager was not helped

THE inquest into the death of the 17 year old boy, Jack Susiant, who drowned in the Lee last year heard that police stood by refusing to enter the water to save him.

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Published: 20 April 2016

Volunteers to do CaRT's engineering work!

IT SEEMS impossible to believe but now the Canal & River Trust wants volunteer boaters to do their engineering work for them by inspecting the Upper Trent and Nottingham Canal in their own boats!

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Published: 20 April 2016

Contractor's plant in canal

THE Dudley No 2 Canal is blocked at Highbridge Bridge by contractor's plant in the waterway.

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Published: 20 April 2016

Visits or visitors

YOUR report under the heading 'Where are they'—So CaRT decided on a panel who agreed to add another 25,000,000 (visitors) to its already impossible figure of 360,000,000 millions, writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 20 April 2016

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