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Drunk stuck in waterway

IT WAS the fire brigade that had to rescue a man who had fallen into the Calder & Hebble at Sowerby Bridge.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Another stove boat fire

HARD on the heels of the news of the narrowboat burnt out on the Macclesfield Canal comes news of another boat fire caused by a stove overheating.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Body parts gang found guilty

THE gang involved in the cutting-up of the body of Adam Vincent, and disposing of the parts in the waterways have been found guilty and are due for sentencing.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Landslip closes T&M

A LANDSLIP by Barnton Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal has closed the waterway.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Email: Stavely Basin

I don't want to rain on the parade, but I just don't see the point of spending over half a million pounds on Staveley Basin on the Chesterfield Canal when it doesn't go anywhere and no boats can use it.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Email: Tool hire

I disagree with Pam Pickett. Hiring in tools from specialist hire companies, especially with increasingly complex and specialist tools that do a wide variety of tasks is clearly the right way to go.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Another narrowboat burnt-out

ANOTHER narrowboat has been added to the every increasing list of those being destroyed by fire.

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Published: 22 January 2012

First narrowboat at Staveley

A CROWD of delighted spectators welcomed the narrowboat John Varley into Staveley Town Basin yesterday (Friday)—the first boat into the the new basin.

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Published: 21 January 2012

Hand rails for lock tail bridges

AFTER the death of the boy who attempted to cycle across the lock tail bridge at Stourport over the Staffs & Worcs Canal, British Waterways is to take action with lock tail bridges.

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Published: 20 January 2012

Man seeks girl who saved him

THE 74 years old man who fell into the Coventry Canal at Tamworth wants to find the girl who saved him, then walked away.

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Published: 20 January 2012

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  • Canal & River Trust help boatyard to survive
  • Grantham Canal Society to start on restoration of another lock
  • Workers break into roof of tunnel closing navigation
  • Chesterfield Canal Trust at Staveley:
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  • Two weeks of failures
  • Concrete barriers to protect Wrenbury Lift Bridge
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  • Now 100 more boats trapped
  • Navigations closed and reopened
  • The Whitchurch embankment failure
  • Two waterways have long term stoppages
  • No access to Ripon Marina—again
  • Base layer of breach completed—then dug up!
  • Movement of boats stopped on the Grand Union summit
  • Straight to the nitty-gritty of the accounts
  • Worry of breach at Nantwich

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