A MAN was attacked on the towpath of the Rochdale Canal on Sunday (17th October) and thrown into the waterway.
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AFTER a two year study, the Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) has identified 'serious flaws' in the organisation and funding of the inland waterways of England and Wales, believing the outcome to be bleak.
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BELIEVE it or not it's a narrowboat, pictured by John Whitehead near Botany Bay on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
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IN RESPONSE to the words of Michael Shefras I cannot believe that anyone could even begin to think of combining the Environment Agency with British Waterways, writes Pam Pickett.
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IT IS not only carbon monoxide that sets off that alarm but hydrogen too, as two boaters found out.
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THAMES User Group (Navigation) coordinator Michael Shefras has warned that should British Waterways 'mutualisation' include Environment Agency navigations it will entail extraordinary upheaval with a risk of failure.
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A YOUNG woman has been seriously sexually assaulted by a man on the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley.
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THE body of a Chinese man was dumped in the Selby Canal as a result of a dispute over the profit from drugs.
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A DIRECTIVE by the Fuel Quality Directive Transposition states that all gas oils (red diesel) be virtually sulphur free from next January.
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POLICE are attempting to trace the last movements of a boater whose body was found in the Grand Union Canal at Cosgrove.
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