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BRIDGES are key to the restoration of the Grantham Canal. Some 70 bridges have crossed its 33 miles at one time or another and many of the original ones were flattened and/or culverted post-World War II, writes Peter Stone.

THERE is the possibility of yet another marina being built on the already overcrowded Trent & Mersey Canal.

FURTHER details have emerged concerning British Waterways' tree cutting programme this winter, writes Allan Richards.

Though Wendover Arm on the Grand Union Canal is closed due to leakage there is still boating as Howard Clarke's photograph clearly shows.

BRITISH Waterways has now appointed a giving manager to the ranks of new people who will oversee fundraising when it becomes Canal & River Trust

BOATERS in the capital are extremely worried at British Waterways' new policy of  of getting rid of its mooring wardens at its insecure locations.

A LANDSLIP by Barnton Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal has closed the waterway.

BRITISH Waterways has made a dramatic U-turn on the Coroner's 'rule 43' report following the death of Wendy Brennan, writes Allan Richards.

ANOTHER narrowboat has been added to the every increasing list of those being destroyed by fire.

A CROWD of delighted spectators welcomed the narrowboat John Varley into Staveley Town Basin yesterday (Friday)—the first boat into the the new basin.

OH DEAR, so much controversy in relation to the proposed takeover of the Canal & River Trust and yet more of the family silver already going to raise funds.

THE serving of two decision notices on British Waterways for breaches of the Freedom of Information Act descended into farce yesterday when British Waterways issued a refusal notice concerning a document it had already published twice, writes Allan Richards.