BOATERS using the rivers Great Ouse and Cam are furious at changes to the licensing system which could mean an increase in licence fees of up to 23% and fragmentation of a waterway.
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A LITTER boat, in the form of a dredger was commissioned to clear the rubbish that was discarded around the Watersports Centre and Lowry Outlet Mall area of Salford Quays, has sunk!
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THE interesting annual Waterways History Workshop, organised by the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society, that is generally well attended, is to be held once again, Brenda Ward tells us.
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THE two canal bridges over the Trent & Mersey Canal at Woodend Lock for the new high speed rail link will be raised to allow boat passage underneath, we have been informed.
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IT IS understood that the expected 1,000 boats flotilla on the Thames to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee will have narrowboats taking part.
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A COUNCIL is worried about the condition of two waterways in its district and has formed a management strategy to help safeguard their future.
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BRITISH Waterways Stuart Mills, Director of Property maintains the selling of Wood Wharf will provide the waterways with a significant long term financial contribution to waterways.
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THE 'eyesore' parapet of the Wey & Arun Canal bridge at Loxwood will soon be sorted, with the help of a NatWest Community Force grant.
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TWO short pounds are now empty between Bulbourne and Marsworth, writes Howard Clarke.
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AS THE result of a number of technical and 'operational details' which have yet to be finalised, as of April, there will be slight British Waterways boundary changes.
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