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Outsourced dredging contract

BRITISH Waterways have outsourced its dredging contract to the marine-based civil engineer Land & Water Services Ltd,  with a contract from next month to March 2015.

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Published: 24 November 2010

£33 to wind your boat!

SHOULD your boat be above 50 feet, and you want to wind at the bottom of the Oxford Canal it will not cost you £15 as first stated but £33!

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Published: 24 November 2010

Not a maintenance problem

IT IS fairly clear that the problem, which led to the pound between Bedford Staircase Locks and Planet Lock on the Caldon canal having to be drained, had nothing to do with BW maintenance procedures, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 24 November 2010

Titford Pump comes home

THE Titford Pump that served the Titford Canal is to be reinstated by its original home on the wharf by Titford Pumphouse at Engine Street in Oldbury.

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Published: 22 November 2010

Linton gates go in

AFTER 25 years the gates of Linton Lock were deemed past their 'sell-by' date, and have been replaced.

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Published: 22 November 2010

Will anything be done?

THE state of some of the facilities around the waterways has prompted a boater  to contact British Waterways, and she waits to see what reply she gets.

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Published: 22 November 2010

Took it literally!

WHEN a taxi driver accepted a fare to Aspley Basin in Huddersfield he took it literally—with his taxi ending in the basin itself!

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Published: 22 November 2010

Rethink on 'eyesore' pontoons

WITH complaints about the 'eyesore' pontoons and steel piles along Castle Mill Stream in Oxford, British Waterways is re-thinking its £90,000 scheme.

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Published: 22 November 2010

BW maintenance spend plummets

A RECENT press release from BW claims that this winter our waterways will benefit from 'a £50m vital makeover of dozens of historic locks, bridges and aqueducts, as well as the hanging of over 100 handcrafted oak lock gates', writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 19 November 2010

Harry gets his gong

LIFELONG waterways enthusiast, photographer and author Harry Arnold was presented with his MBE this month by the Queen.

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Published: 19 November 2010

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