THE third Broads Outdoors Festival which features 70 special events over more than two weeks is to be launched tomorrow, Thursday 2nd May at How Hill National Nature Reserve.
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A NARROWBOAT is being prepared at Norbury Junction, for giving people a 'taste' of the Shropshire Union Canal, appropriately named the Shropshire Star.
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IT HAS been discovered that the landslip on the Basingstoke Canal is still moving causing the towpath to move around 18ft into the waterway.
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THE charity boat The Hargreaves belonging to the the Hargreaves Narrowboat Trust, has been given a make-over for the new season.
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THE spate of continuing break-ins and anti-social crime around the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) has prompted a Canal Watch scheme.
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IT SEEMS that thieves have realised that unoccupied narrowboats are an easy target, as there really is a frenzy of break-ins at the moment, all over the system.
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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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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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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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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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