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Clean-up 'treasure'

A GROUP of volunteers from the Chesterfield Canal Trust and Retford Civic Society, pulled out a wide variety of 'treasure' from the Chesterfield Canal in Retford.

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Published: 30 March 2011

Record 31 bikes

WITH it now being the age of the volunteer, at least our waterways will be considerably less rubbish strewn, with those volunteers of Loughborough fishing a record 21 bikes out of the waterway.

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Published: 30 March 2011

It's official—boating is in decline

FOLLOWING swiftly behind the news that the number of visitors to British Waterways' canals and rivers fell in 2010, comes news that boating is also in decline, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 29 March 2011

Bats save boathouse

A DERELICT Boathouse in Back of Avon at Tewkesbury cannot be demolished as it houses bats.

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Published: 29 March 2011

More Brentford waterside development

PLANNING permission has been granted for more of the waterside Brentford Lock West regeneration scheme by the side of the Grand Union Canal.

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Published: 29 March 2011

Swing bridge complaints

TRADERS and residents living by Bar Lane Swing Bridge  at Riddlesden on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal are upset as the bridge has been locked open preventing pedestrian and vehicle traffic over the waterway.

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Published: 27 March 2011

Gloucester events

GLOUCESTER Waterways Museum starts the season with its events during May, including cruises on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal.

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Published: 27 March 2011

Essex Wharf in the balance

IN A very weak-sounding response, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, declined to call-in the unpopular planning consent for building four large blocks of flats on Essex Wharf in the Lee Valley Regional Park.

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Published: 27 March 2011

The endangered species

OUR Ralph Freeman thought that boaters would like to see a few photographs of the endangered species taken at Sandon Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

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Published: 25 March 2011

Chance to influence the future

AS PREVIOUSLY reported, British Waterways is recruiting people to sit on the various Boards, and is at present concentrating on the West Midlands and North West areas.

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Published: 25 March 2011

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