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English Heritage help

BRITISH Waterways has received £7,000 of funding from English Heritage to carry out maintenance and improvement work over three years on side ponds of Hanwell Flight on the Grand Union Canal.

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Published: 21 July 2011

No 'National' next year

THE long running national waterways festival organised by the Inland Waterways Association will not be held next year.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Don't do it

ONCE again there is the warning to would-be swimmers in the waterways from British Waterways not to do it!

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Published: 20 July 2011

Towpath rapist jailed

THE illegal immigrant Bangladesh man who raped a woman by the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley, and attempted a rape of another was given an indeterminate sentence at Preston Crown Court.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Drinkers sparked emergency operation

THREE drinkers leaping into the Ouse from a pub garden in York sparked off a full emergency operation after the men were seen in the water.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Who was the man?

THERE is curiosity surrounding the case of a drowned man in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Leeds on Saturday.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Commemorate cruise

IT WAS 100 years ago that Gem carried a cargo over the Cotswolds from Saul near Gloucester to Lechlade on the Thames, the last boat to do so before the waterway was closed.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Green Cheshire Cat

CHESHIRE Cat Narrowboat Holidays has taken another step towards its goal of providing greener boating holidays, by switching to a renewable energy supplier.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Diglis Lock muddle

THERE was muddle at British Waterways on Monday concerning Diglis Lock, with a stoppage notice issued stating it was closed for all boats.

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Published: 20 July 2011

Bridges and chimney restored

THE cast iron bridges and the leaning chimney by the Bath Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal have been restored.

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Published: 18 July 2011

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