IT SEEMS that Nick Hurd, the MP for Ruislip, had picked up on Allan Richards' Money down the drain' article in narrowboatworld.
IN ADDITION to the closure of the Rochdale Canal due to the investigation of a leaking embankment, the closure has been extended to cover a dangerous building.
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THE thief who was controversially sent on a canal holiday as a teenager in a bid to steer him away from crime has been jailed for five years.
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THE 'WaterSpace' basin proposed for Daventry will have leisure facilities for 'visitors who come to the town on narrowboats'.
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THOUGH it was in April that ammonia leaked into the Staffs & Worcs and Shropshire Union canals, British Waterways have granted anglers a rent free 'holiday' until the matter is cleared up.
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WITH the Thames listed as unsafe for navigation, a pair took a wooden cruiser on the river and finished up on Teddington Weir after it lost power.
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FOLLOWING wide consultation, a new agreement as been reached on the future of the Pocklington Canal.
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AFTER cyanide was leaked into the Trent below Stoke, it was discovered there were no living fish in a 700 metres stretch of water.
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THE Bude Canal Trust has now had the support of an MP in its endeavours to promote the waterway's restoration.
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BRITISH Waterways is being offered in a auction on Ebay, with the first bid now in.
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