IT WAS good to see Ralph Freeman highlighting the lock next to the Dog & Doublet on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal as an example of how a gate can be made to fit, writes Allan Richards.
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PREVIOUSLY unlicenced sections of the canal network have been made available to anglers by British Waterways.
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MY DAILY commute takes me alongside the formerly restored stretch of the Cromford Canal between Ambergate and Cromford, and for the past three or four weeks, extensive works have been going on involving heavy diggers and other machinery, writes Paul Burke.
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IT WAS the very well known actor Brian Blessed who accepted a cheque for £3,000 on behalf of Friends of Cromford Canal, towards its restoration.
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THE waterways museums at Gloucester and Stoke Bruerne are being re-named, which is to 'emphasise and strengthen their links with their local environment'.
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A NEW supermarket has just been opened by the Staffs & Worcs Canal at Wombourne.
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THE 'bodge job' on the towpath of the Grand Union in Loughborough that was featured in narrowboatworld earlier this month is getting more dangerous.
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WOULD you believe that a World War Two U-boat managed to get to Devizes on the Kennet & Avon—negotiating all those locks?
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A MAN who attacked a towpath walker after being refused a cigarette, then battered him to death, has been given a life sentence.
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AFTER the failure of former plans, British Waterways is holding a public exhibition on revised proposals to redevelop Marsworth Yard at the junction of the Grand Union Canal and Aylesbury Arm.
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