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Fright Night at museum

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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Published: 19 September 2012

65 miles charity walk

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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Published: 19 September 2012

Email: Dumping ground

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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Published: 19 September 2012

Difficult lock gates

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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Published: 16 September 2012

Michael Portillo at Tooley's

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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Published: 16 September 2012

Boatyard on Thames island

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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Published: 16 September 2012

Plans for Wood Wharf

There are plans for the development of Wood Wharf on the Thames at Blackwall, with  architects appointed to devise a master plan for the whole 20 acres.

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Published: 16 September 2012

Email: Breaking the rules

Simon Grindrod is convinced that a lot of boaters agree with his assumption that it's okay that 'a high proportion of boaters are having(?) to break the rules'.

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Published: 15 September 2012

Email: Cake and eat it

Methinks Simon Grindrod wants to have his cake and eat it! Writes Peter Foster.

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Published: 15 September 2012

More resident boaters

IRELAND Waterways too is applying for planning permission for resident boats on its waterways in addition to Scottish Waterways, as recently published in narrowboatworld.

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Published: 15 September 2012

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