A RESTORED narrowboat is making a 100th birthday journey across the canal network from the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port to the London Canal Museum—and taking all summer to do it.
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A FAIRLY new Sea Otter, Nook is sunk on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, with no one in the area knowing who owns it, David King writes.
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THE May Canal & River Trust (CART) update omits to tell that British Waterways directors are being rewarded for failure by becoming directors of a community interest company (CIC) set up as CART's trading subsidiary, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Montgomery Canal Forum, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the waterway, held at Welshpool Town Hall showed that many businesses are making use of the waterway.
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IT TOOK British Waterways staff over three hours to rescue a car from the Rochdale Canal at Walsden on the East of the summit pound late last week.
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WITH an estimated month's worth of rain in 24 hours around Calderdale, the Rochdale Canal, Calder & Hebble and Aire & Calder are all flooded with boaters having to be rescued.
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May I respond to Victor on the subject of lock gate closing? Does it make any sense to shut a gate on a busy day on the lower Grand Union?
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If I remember correctly, when we passed through Aston Lock a couple of weeks ago, after we closed the bottom gates (going down) and before we had progressed very far, one was already open by itself.
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ANOTHER boater having problems with boats speeding past when his own boat is moored, is Richard Tanner, who writes:
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FOLLOWING narrowboatworld's shock revelation that British Waterways directors may face criminal charges relating to the death of a young cyclist Allan Richards explores the cost of death or serious injury on our waterways.
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