REGULAR readers may remember the many reports of knife attacks on the Regents Canal towpath at Islington, but it is getting closer to home with attacks on boats, and now the possibility of violence, as a boater at the scene explains.
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A MEETING at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton on Trent heard that the Inland Waterways Association wanted volunteers for its 'National' to be held again at Burton.
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IT BRINGS it home to canal restorers when the next structure appearing on their restoration and maintenance programme is one they rebuilt some years earlier.
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OVER 150 Thames mute swans have died due to infections caused by the severe weather between January and March.
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THE Kennet & Avon Canal Trust has no alternative but to move out of its canal centre at Devizes Wharf as it just cannot continue to face the ever increasing cost of repairs.
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AT LONG last the Kennet & Avon Canal, a 'remainder' waterway, has been upgraded to 'cruiseway' status, it was announced today (Wednesday).
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IT'S LEGGING time in April as boats are legged through Standedge Tunnel to celebrate its 200th anniversary.
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A SCOUT group walked most of the Cuckoo Way—the Chesterfield Canal—during half term, showing that scouts at least are fit!
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THE impressive Allinson's Flour Mill that ceased production in February, ending an estimated 2,000 years of milling in Castleford is proving of interest to developers.
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MERCIA Marina on the Trent & Mersey Canal is looking for interested parties who would relish the opportunity to operate their own trip boat business.
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