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More pressure on BW over Regents ramp
Thursday, 10 June 2010 07:05

PRESSURE is mounting against British Waterways over construction of its ramp on the Regents Canal, featured in narrowboatworld, and  its 'lack of accountability'

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Eviction notices on resident boaters
Monday, 07 June 2010 07:02

A COUNCIL has decided that the residents of  two narrowboats are not allowed to live on their boats without planning permission, and have served eviction notices on them both.

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Comment—British Waterways has failed
Sunday, 06 June 2010 09:46

MANY year ago, after nearly 30 years of writing newspaper editorials, sometimes—as other such editors will surely testify—with a struggle, I promised I would never write another editorial again  as long as I lived!

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That lock closed again!
Friday, 04 June 2010 18:55

EVERYONE must know which lock we mean, Lock 46 on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal whose cill collapsed closing the waterway over the May Bank Holiday.

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Regents ramp project stopped
Friday, 04 June 2010 17:21

THE construction of the ramp on the Regents Canal, featured in narrowboatworld has been halted as British Waterway did not obtain planning permission.

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Dangerous boating at Stourbridge
Friday, 04 June 2010 09:29

GANGS of brick-throwing yobs have taken over a derelict house at Stourbridge on the Stourbridge Canal throwing bricks at the moored and visiting boats.

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Let's show them...
Friday, 04 June 2010 06:25

IT IS obvious to regular boaters cruising the waterways that BW set up a survey then rigged it to get the results it wanted.

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More Leeds & Liverpool restrictions
Thursday, 03 June 2010 14:04

BRITISH Waterways is imposing more restrictions on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal by restricting the hours of usage of Plank Lane Bridge on the Leigh Branch.

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Another closure on Leeds & Liverpool
Thursday, 03 June 2010 06:30

LACK of water has closed another section of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal—between Appley Bridge and Poolstock.

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Leeds & Liverpool open—possibly
Thursday, 03 June 2010 00:12

THE update from BW tells us that the  Lock 46 'stoppage has now been lifted and is open to through navigation' yesterday (Wednesday), but this is in doubt.

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Mushroom board meetings
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 10:19

THE concept of mushroom management is well known, writes Allan Richards. Keep them in the dark and feed them. …… However, BW goes a step further with mushroom board meetings.

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Boaters and a mutual
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 09:05

WHAT about us boaters—how will we fare in a BW mutual trust? And for that matter is a mutual trust for the waterways even a starter. The whole bottom line is money. How do you finance BW as a mutual trust. Who pays what? And this is where the problems start, writes David Cragg.

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