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Countryfile at Ellesmere Port

THERE was unusual activity at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port today (Wednesday) with Countryfile being filmed.

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Published: 26 January 2011

Flats for Devizes Wharf

REVISED plans have been submitted for flats on Devizes Wharf on the Kennet & Avon Canal after objections.
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Published: 26 January 2011

Club to lose its wharf

SELLING off Cropredy Wharf on the Oxford Canal will mean that the Banbury & District Canoe Club will loose its wharf, unless the members can find British Waterway's asking price of £130,000.

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Published: 26 January 2011

Residents at Diglis Basin

DIGLIS Basin in Worcester at the end of the Worcester & Birmingham Canal has been given permission to have residential boats.

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Published: 26 January 2011

Swing bridge works add to chaos

IT IS at present virtual gridlock in Doncaster as three separate road works are in progress, helped by British Waterways closing an 'escape' route over the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation.

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Published: 26 January 2011

When is a boat not a boat?

A BOAT is not a boat when it has a wooden structure built on it for extra living space.

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Published: 26 January 2011

Nothing clear with the diesel

IT SEEMS that the suppliers of diesel to the canal side sellers are still in a quandary about the new bio diesel.

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Published: 24 January 2011

Boats instead of high speed rail

BOATER Terry Fogarty has put forward his own plans as an alternative to the £18 billion high-speed rail link from Birmingham to London, using the waterways.

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Published: 24 January 2011

Another reprieve for Mr Asbo

THE aggressive swan on the Cam in Cambridge has gained another reprieve, so is still in residence.
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Published: 24 January 2011

Flood at Barton Turn

THE lack of regular maintenance struck again, this time at Barton Turn Lock, with only prompt action of locals averting the pub and houses being flooded when the canal overflowed.

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Published: 24 January 2011

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