IT WAS many years ago that our then contributor, Richard Swann, pointed out the unsafe lock ladders on some of the locks on the Shropshire Union Canal.
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The Grantham Economic Development Draft Plan that has been published completely ignores its canal, making no reference to it whatsoever.
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A ROCK fall into the Springs Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Skipton has completely closed the waterway.
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A WEEK ago Thames Water was fined a massive £1m for allowing repeated discharges of pollution from its Tring Sewerage Treatment works into the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal.
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THE murder of a young woman on the towpath of the Calder & Hebble towpath over 50 years ago has been re-opened by the police.
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WE MUST all know of the devastation caused to homes by the recent flooding over Christmas and the New Year, but boaters too have suffered considerably, and here we see the reality of flooding waterways.
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A LADY who had her home flooded when the defences failed in Cumbria gave the Environmental Agency some very good advice.
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THERE have been two waterway closures in the first week of the new year, neither of them as part of winter maintenance, setting a worrying trend.
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I MOOR my narrowboat at Stockwith on the Chesterfield Canal, and obviously use the tidal Trent very often, my log showing ten times in 2015, and your correspondents comments regarding the wearing of life jackets bring me to write about these, writes Paul Levens.
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THERE is to be another Leicester Riverside Festival this year on the Mile Straight of the Grand Union Canal in the city.
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