A VOLUNTEER lock keeper was quite proud at getting a quad bike for getting up and down the locks at Devizes, but just could not control it, and ended up with it plunging into a lock.
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A PRANK by the owner of the narrowboat Tiger Moth, moored on the Thames at Reading caused a full terror alert with police and army rushing to intercept it.
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THE man who murdered his 'friend', cut up his body and dumped it in a canal in a suitcase has been sentenced to 19 years in jail.
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THE Wool Boat, Emma Maye, is joining the second National Yarn Shop Day, moored at Rode Heath on the Trent & Mersey Canal, where the owners will be offering their wares.
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THE other correspondents on this topic [tidal Trent] articulate their experiences well. I have cruised the tidal Trent for the entire distance to Trent Falls on a friend's Broads cruiser, writes Lynda' O'Hare.
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THE Chesterfield Canal Trust will be showing some of the treasures from its archive at Hollingwood Hub that includes an original copy of the 1771 Act of Parliament, which enabled the canal to be built.
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AFTER its winter maintenance the John Bunyan trip boat is ready to start a new season on the River Great Ouse at Bedford.
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THE National Bargees Travellers Association (NBTA) is going all-out to strengthen itself against what its members believe is pressure from the Canal & River Trust to evict them from the waterways by its new rules.
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I DO NOT have the statistics but suspect that the number of deaths in tunnels, since the massive number of souls lost in constructing the tunnels, must be in the single figures area writes John Howard.
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THE man responsible for cutting-up a man's body, cramming it in a suitcase and dumping it in a Birmingham Canal has been convicted of murder.
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