WE HAVE lost count of the stops and starts in the building of King's Orchard Marina at Streethay on the Coventry Canal, but once again work has stopped, and Kevin McNiff writes:
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MANY contributors and ourselves have noticed the lack of boat movements on the waterways compared to recent years, except for the 'flurry' over the school holidays, with Martin Howes confirming:
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POLLUTION leaking into the Erewash Canal has closed a section until it can be cleared.
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WE have just returned from 14 weeks out on our boat. I make the following comments about vegetation ‘control' and continuous cruisers, writes Bob Hallam.
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SUCH was the success of the Fright Nights at the Halloween events at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port, that there is to be another this year.
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BOATS, bishops and bridges all had a part to play during a 65 miles walk from Blackburn Cathedral to Chester Cathedral by a team from Chester and Blackburn-based Adoption Matters Northwest.
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David Hymers rightly talks about the improvements to the Ashton Canal. Would that the same could be said about the behaviour of some of the local residents.
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MANY lock gates, particularly on the Trent & Mersey Canal, are extremely difficult to move, being wrongly installed, and it is a matter of some urgency that they are rectified before more people find cruising too much like hard work, and give it up.
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FORMER Cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, who is at present filming the television series Great British Railway Journeys, paid a visit to Tooley's Boatyard.
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THERE is to be a boatyard built on Brandy Island near Buscot Lock on the Thames despite opposition from the National Trust.
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