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Passes for eels

THE Environment Agency has built eel passes on the Nene, and Kyme Eau  to help the creatures migrate around flood defences.

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Published: 05 July 2010

The Weaver closed

HOT on the heels of the closure of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, comes news that the Weaver too is closed by a problem at Saltersford Lock.

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Published: 04 July 2010

Birmingham & Fazeley Canal breached

THE Birmingham & Fazeley Canal was closed on Friday (2nd July) with the long pound above Minworth Flight very low and unnavigable, after being breached.

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Published: 02 July 2010

All change for the Broads

FROM this month the Broads are re-branded as Britain's Magical Waterland!
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Published: 02 July 2010

Bodge job was not for moorings

THE bodge job by the contractors at Marple where they left debris  in the canal was not to improve moorings but the towpath!

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Published: 02 July 2010

Sheffield clean-up

LOCAL MP Clive Betts will be visiting the waterway in Sheffield to see the start of the Adsetts Canal Project summer clean-up.

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Published: 02 July 2010

Questions on maintenance spending in Parliament

THE ongoing emails from boaters to their MP's on British Waterways' lack  of expenditure on maintenance is causing questions to be raised in the House of Commons, Alan Tilbury tells us.

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Published: 02 July 2010

Using the Ship Canal

AROUND 30 narrowboats took to the Manchester Ship Canal on their return from the IWA Tom Rolt's Centenary Rally at Chester.

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Published: 02 July 2010

Major operation to save duckling

A DUCKLING caused a great deal of effort by many people after it had come foul of the debris in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

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Published: 01 July 2010

Still over a week before Caen Hill opens

CAEN Hill Flight that was closed over a week ago will not be re-opened until Friday 9th July.

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Published: 30 June 2010

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Latest

  • At last—Atherstone Flight open
  • Whitchurch Breach progress report
  • Canal & River Trust help boatyard to survive
  • Grantham Canal Society to start on restoration of another lock
  • Workers break into roof of tunnel closing navigation
  • Chesterfield Canal Trust at Staveley:
  • Lock closures on the Thames
  • Two weeks of failures
  • Concrete barriers to protect Wrenbury Lift Bridge
  • Warnings to boat owners as 70mph winds set to hit Britain  
  • Irony personified?
  • Now 100 more boats trapped
  • Navigations closed and reopened
  • The Whitchurch embankment failure
  • Two waterways have long term stoppages
  • No access to Ripon Marina—again
  • Base layer of breach completed—then dug up!
  • Movement of boats stopped on the Grand Union summit
  • Straight to the nitty-gritty of the accounts
  • Worry of breach at Nantwich

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