BRITISH Waterways has called time on its joint venture with pub chain giant Scottish & Newcastle with news that up to twenty pubs will be sold off, writes Allan Richards.
MORE money has been wasted on the £200,000 British Waterways' Regent's Ramp designed for separating speeding cyclists from pedestrians.
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EVERY tunnel on our inland waterways is haunted and has its ghost or boggart, writes Allan Richards.
BRITISH Waterways are advertising for a person to take charge of the redundancies to its staff.
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FARMERS are suffering from leaks in a canal and complaining that British Waterways are doing nothing—it's the Leeds & Liverpool of course.
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THE public inquiry concerning the legality of liveaboards on the Driffield Canal has started.
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A TEENAGER has jumped from the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal and plunged to her death.
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CRUISING on the waterways reached a new low last week as a gang of yobs demanded cash from two boaters, and then drained the canal to stop them moving when it was refused!
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FIGURES published in British Waterway Marinas Limited (BWML) annual report indicate that mooring occupancy has fallen, over the last two years, from 90% to 81%. In other words one BWML berth in five lies empty, double the number two years ago. writes Allan Richards.
NOT the whole of it!—just 100 special pieces of tunnel rock, to encourage visitors to the Huddersfield Narrow Canal attraction.
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