LININGS for a Crossrail tunnel portal cast at a works by the side of a canal that are needed just two miles away, again by the canal, are to be transported by lorries along an already overcrowded road.
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JUST over 200 years ago Samuel Whitbread, Member of Parliament for Bedford, was the driving force behind the plan to create a waterway linking the Grand Junction Canal (now the Grand Union) at Milton Keynes with the River Great Ouse at Bedford.
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IT HAS been confirmed that the headless body pulled out of the Regents Canal at Hackney is that of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie.
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THE National Waterways Museum, has lots of events lined up for boaters and visitors during 2012.
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RESIDENTS living on a road by the side of the Kennet & Avon Canal have told it is dangerous as dredging is causing the sludge to spill on to the main A34 in Newbury.
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IN THE case of Nigel Moore v British Waterways Board, Mr Justice Hildyard has ruled that a riparian owner has no entitlement, simply by owning the land, to moor a vessel alongside their land.
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TO CATCH any vandals at the recently opened Caen Hill Marina on the Kennet & Avon Canal, the management is installing CCTV to cover the whole marina.
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ANOTHER waterway having water problems is the part of the Oxford Canal that is fed by the Cherwell—it is drying up.
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LAST Thursday, narrowboatworld stated that government had laid before Parliament the draft order to transfer the functions of British Waterways to the Canal & River Trust (CART), writes Allan Richards.
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THERE are events held each year on the water-starved Grand Union Canal that not only waste water but caused untold damage, and should be stopped.
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