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Portfolio sell-off back on?

ENVIRONMENT Secretary, Caroline Spelman, has lashed out at a Guardian columnist (and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central) for suggesting that Treasury Chief, Danny Alexander, is considering selling off British Waterways' assets as part of a £400m fire sale.

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Published: 09 February 2011

Fair fuel campaign

A FAIR FUEL campaign has been started with its aim to stop the government increasing fuel duty even further.

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Published: 09 February 2011

Glasgow waterfront

GLASGOW lacks an attractive waterfront, and being somewhat jealous of other cities and towns, intends making its own more impressive.

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Published: 09 February 2011

British Waterways mooring prices

BRITISH Waterways has announced the price adjustments for its long-term moorings for customers with 12 months mooring permits.

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Published: 09 February 2011

Punts on the River Great Ouse

IT WILL be just like being on the Cam at Cambridge, as punts will soon be available for hire on the River Great Ouse at Bedford.

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Published: 09 February 2011

British Waterways limerick

TO PROMOTE the latest edition of the Adlard Coles Book of Diesel Engines Waterscape is asking boaters to compose a canal limerick.

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Published: 09 February 2011

£2 millions Thames towpath

UPGRADING three miles of the Thames towpath through Oxford has cost nearly £2 millions.

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Published: 09 February 2011

The wrong crayfish

WHILST British Waterways have been active encouraging crayfish, particularly in the Oxford Canal, it doesn't want them in the Kennet & Avon Canal.

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Published: 09 February 2011

Conservation could block Caldon Canal

THE OLD 300ft chimney at the derelict Bolton's Copper Works is in danger of falling into the Caldon Canal and on to the Churnet Valley Railway, so a conservation order was slapped on it last week so it can't be demolished!

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Published: 07 February 2011

Man mugged on Bath towpath

A MAN was attacked by two men in the middle of the day on the towpath of the Avon in Bath.

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Published: 06 February 2011

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