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Pelsall Canal Festival

A TOTAL of 135 boats moored at Pelsall Junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal for the weekend 11th and 12th June to enjoy the delights of the northern section of the Birmingham Canal Navigations.

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Published: 15 June 2011

Longer Middle Level moorings

THE bane of narrowboaters using the Middle Level moorings is that they were designed for short plastic boats, and completely unsuitable for the longer boats.

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Published: 15 June 2011

Boater loses foot in propeller

A BOATER who fell off a narrowboat into the River Great Ouse near St Neots, lost his foot as it became caught in the boat's revolving propeller.

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Published: 15 June 2011

No Daventy Canal

THE constant effort to create a canal to Daventry and a basin in the town has once again been rejected by the Town Council.

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Published: 15 June 2011

Unprovoked towpath attack

THERE was an unprovoked attack on a woman earlier this week on the Llangollen Canal towpath at Hindford.

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Published: 15 June 2011

Caterers don't want canal basin

FOR the past 15 years Sheffield City Council have been trying to get caterers for the canal basin in the city without success.

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Published: 15 June 2011

Email: Not for the faint-hearted

Victor seems to have made heavy weather of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, and I agree that it isn't for the faint-hearted.

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Published: 15 June 2011

Email: Doesn't agree

As a member of the Waterway Recovery Group with some recent experience of working on the Monty, I would just like to point out a couple of factual errors in the piece 'WRG ruining Montgomery Restoration'.

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Published: 15 June 2011

That's the way to do it

WHILST British Waterways is struggling to find cash for dredging its canals, the Broads Authority is getting the European Union to pay for it.

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Published: 10 June 2011

Email: The attitude

The attitude that prevents some private boat owners from observing simple courtesies is based on the fact that:

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Published: 10 June 2011

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Latest

  • Key developments from the Whitchurch Canal breach
  • Gloucester Docks closed for dredging
  • Winter works programme published
  • A further stoppage on Kennet & Avon Canal
  • Trip hazards causing tripping into canal
  • New Junction Canal could be closed for months
  • The Whitchurch Arm now closed
  • Profiteering at the expence of stranded boaters
  • Narrowboat recovered from Bath Deep Lock
  • And another...
  • Gloucester Docks still silted-up
  • Lack of water still closing waterways
  • 14 days rule suspension ends on the 1st October
  • Mercia Marina gets award for outstanding visitor experience
  • A big day for action at Whitchurch
  • Is Yorkshire closed yet?
  • Calder & Hebble Navigation reopens
  • The state of the reservoirs...
  • The site of the new leak/breach on the Llangollen Canal
  • Victor tells the cost of lack of maintenance

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