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Volunteer skippers wanted

VOLUNTEER skippers are needed for a new wide beam boat that  takes young and disabled people for trips on the Grand Union Canal at Hemel Hempstead.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Canal festival too popular

IT SEEMS that Linslade Canal Festival this year was too popular, with the huge number of visitors causing health and safety concerns for the local council.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Another marina rejected

THE plans for a marina at Stripes Hill Farm on the Grand Union Canal at Knowle have been turned down on appeal.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Yobs sink boat with hosepipe

IT IS amazing what yobs will do to damage boats, with the latest being the use of an hosepipe to fill a boat with water until it sank.

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Published: 13 October 2011

Keep your horses safe

THREE times in three days firefighters were called to rescue horses which had become stuck in waterways around Worcester.

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Published: 13 October 2011

Dredging causes dead fish

WHAT could be a great set-back to dredging the waterways, is that is has caused dead fish in Aylesbury Basin.

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Published: 12 October 2011

Anglers and cyclists fall out

A TOWPATH cyclist, annoyed by an angler who had his rod across the towpath, argued with him then pushed him into the waterway.

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Published: 12 October 2011

Doubts about more Kelpies

THERE are plans to erect another pair of Kelpies—the 30ft horse heads at the Falkirk Wheel—on a proposed lift bridge at Grangemouth, but there is opposition to the development.

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Published: 12 October 2011

Considerable support for Chesterfield Canal

THE Heritage Lottery Fund has been proved wrong in its assumption that the restoration of the Chesterfield Canal did not hold much heritage value or public support.

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Published: 12 October 2011

Cyclist dies in Bridgewater Canal

A WOMAN has been discovered dead in the Bridgewater Canal near Lymm, with her cycle nearby.

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Published: 10 October 2011

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Latest

  • At last—Atherstone Flight open
  • Whitchurch Breach progress report
  • 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:
  • Lock closures on the Thames
  • Two weeks of failures
  • Concrete barriers to protect Wrenbury Lift Bridge
  • Warnings to boat owners as 70mph winds set to hit Britain  
  • Irony personified?
  • 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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