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Extreme weather prevented opening

THOUGH the new Cropredy Marina was due to open at the start of the season, (Cropredy Marina delayed) the extreme weather over the past months has prevented this happening.

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Published: 29 April 2013

Better at Hatton

THE offside of Hatton Flight on the Grand Union Canal is now better to negotiate after five days of clearance by members of the Inland Waterways Association Warwickshire Branch.

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Published: 29 April 2013

Boater has narrowboat coffin

A MAN who spent his life on water, first as a merchant seaman and then as a boater, running canal trips for disadvantaged children and community groups, had his perfect 'send-off' in a narrowboat coffin.

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Published: 29 April 2013

Fundraising cruise by raft

JOHN Wonfor was so impressed by the work of the Macmillan nurses, who took care of his wife when suffering bowel cancer, that he has undertaken a six months canal cruise on little more than a motorised raft.

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Published: 29 April 2013

Slough Arm closed

FOLLOWING the closure of the Aylesbury Arm on the Grand Union Canal owing to the collapse of lock wall, now comes the closure of the Slough Arm, owing to the failing of a bridge.

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Published: 29 April 2013

EA attempts to gag narrowboatworld

READERS may have noticed an article that we published concerning the Environment Agency's attitude to the restoration of the Avoncliff Mill on the Avon, that was later taken down.

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Published: 29 April 2013

Marina equiped to save lives

AQUEDUCT Marina at Nantwich now has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) installed by the North West Ambulance Service, able to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims.

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Published: 28 April 2013

No fencing for Burnley canal

ONCE again a distraught mother has blamed the lack of fencing of a canal for her two years old son falling in, but a local council spokesman stated this was not feasible.

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Published: 28 April 2013

Blow to Lichfield restoration

THIEVES have delivered a huge blow to the progress of the Lichfield Canal restoration by stealing nearly £10,000 worth of equipment and tools used by its volunteers.

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Published: 27 April 2013

Moore case legal costs revealed

RECENTLY narrowboatworld divulged that Canal & River Trust had failed to reveal costs associated with its illegal attempt to seize a boat and deprive a boater of his home (Cart publicizes its adversary), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 27 April 2013

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