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Banned from cleaning off graffiti

THE Best Kept Village Committee at Wombourne on the Staffs & Worcs Canal has been stopped from cleaning the graffiti off its canal bridges by British Waterways.

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Published: 17 February 2011

Venetian Marina go antique

For those travelling the Middlewich Branch of the Shroppie, there are some changes at Venetian Marina that boaters might like to be aware of, Dave King writes.

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Published: 17 February 2011

Narrowboat arsonist on trial

KATHLEEN Smith poured petrol over her ex-lover's narrowboat as he slept inside, then set it alight a jury was told.

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Published: 17 February 2011

Bingley Five Rise gets cash

BRITISH Waterways has awarded £50,000 to prepare a plan to encourage visitors to Bingley Five Rise.

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Published: 17 February 2011

British Waterways investment fails

IT SEEMS that British Waterways has made yet another bad investment, this time of £500,000 in the Liverpool Boat Show, as the organisers have called in the administrators.

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Published: 17 February 2011

Cadbury help restore chocolate boat

A DONATION from chocolate company Cadbury is helping to restore a traditional narrowboat that once carried chocolate.

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Published: 16 February 2011

Floating homes by the Thames

CRAZY plans come and go, but the one by developer Hydro Properties will take some beating—homes built on floating pontoons by the Thames!

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Published: 16 February 2011

Money to waste?

THE shortage of cash for local councils does not seem to have affected Eton Town Council, who want to add an unnecessary arch to the existing Windsor Bridge over the Thames.

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Published: 16 February 2011

Ice walker was drunk

A MAN who walked on the frozen Oxford Canal at Rugby in December had drunk nine pints of lager and five double whisky and cokes.

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Published: 16 February 2011

Narrowboat gutted by fire

A NARROWBOAT moored on the Thames by Richmond Bridge has been gutted by fire.

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Published: 16 February 2011

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  • Embankment breaches getting worse
  • Sutton Weaver Swing Bridge get repaired
  • More lock gates failing
  • They're all out!
  • More stoppages and solutions
  • More boats off the Weaver
  • Getting tough with the skivers
  • Obstruction still stopping navigation
  • Two more stoppages yesterday
  • River Canal Rescue competition winner
  • Getting the two boats out of the Llangollen Canal breach
  • Two lock repairs completed
  • BBC film the work being undertaken by Cotswold Canals Trust
  • Kennet & Avon lock to be repaired during season
  • Boat stranded teetering over Whitchurch breach refloated
  • Bridgewater Canal set to be reopened by December this year
  • Two more canal closures
  • Pollution still entering Chesterfield Canal
  • Move across to the canal
  • Feasibility study to replace Skipton bridge

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