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Money for Stour locks

THE Veolia Environmental Trust, that gives money for community and environmental projects from the Landfill Fund has awarded the River Stour Trust £40,000 that will be used to install lock gates.

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Published: 03 February 2014

The 'brick wall'

WITH Canal & River Trust (CaRT) spending £800,000 to repair the failure of Buckland Lock on the Aylesbury Arm, it is little wonder that a boater is asking for an engineering report as to its cause, (Victor: What caused the failure?), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 03 February 2014

HS2 will not 'carve up' canals

THOUGH a newspaper proclaimed the proposed High Speed rail network (HS2) will carve up the canal network, it will do nothing of the sort—but simply cross them, there being no likelihood of an established and navigable waterway being 'carved up'.

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Published: 03 February 2014

Completely crazy

THOUGH money is not available for proper maintenance of the Mon & Brec, money is being spent on completely unconnected stretches, that seems completely crazy, as David Davis explains:

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Published: 31 January 2014

Concern for missing boater

FELLOW boaters and family of liveaboard boater Elaine Harrison are extremely worried about her continued disappearance from Castle Marina on the Nottingham Canal.

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Published: 31 January 2014

Charity of the year—saving hedgerows

THE Canal & River Trust has been unveiled as ‘Charity of the Year' by People's Postcode Lottery, it was announced today, Friday.

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Published: 31 January 2014

Mon & Brec to remain closed?

WITH the increasing frequency of asset and infrastructure failure since since Canal & River Trust (CaRT) succeeded British Waterways, an announcement that that the Mon & Brec at Llanfoist (between bridges 93 and 97) was closed for safety reasons on 7th January due to embankment movement has passed almost unnoticed, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 30 January 2014

Boat fire at Hatton

TWO boaters were taken to hospital after a narrowboat caught fire at Hatton Locks on the Grand Union Canal earlier this week.
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Published: 30 January 2014

That's better!

BOATERS who cruise the Birmingham canals must be aware that it seems to be the Mecca for unsightly and poorly executed graffiti, but the city is fighting back as can be seen from the mural unveiled this week.

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Published: 30 January 2014

BWML starts boat breakdown service

IT IS the Mayor of Lancaster, Councillor June Ashworth, who will officially launch Glasson Mobile Marine Services, a call-out boat breakdown service.

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Published: 30 January 2014

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