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LEICESTERSHIRE City Council has now finalised its new waterways strategy plan, which will be endorsed this month.

SOMETHING new for boaters—a 'float-in' for food from a canalside pub.

A COUNCIL has stopped work on the restoration of the Chichester Canal, and is accused of 'overkill' in its protection of water voles.

THE Waterway Recovery Group has presented the Chesterfield Canal Trust with a cheque for £500 towards the Trust's Staveley Town Lock Fund.

A DRUG dealer who operated on the towpath of the Huddersfield Canal has been jailed for six years.

NOTWITHSTANDING the recession, the plan to restore the Wilts and Berks Canal through Swindon is still alive, though now in the town's 2026 vision.

THE Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust wants to raise between £700,000 and £1m, for the Derby Canal, not for restoration, but to build a cycleway.

ILLEGAL fishing traps have been discovered in the Avon at Evesham, believed to have been set by immigrants catching the fish as food.

BRITISH Waterways has joined forces with Partnerships for Renewables with the intention of installing wind turbines at its reservoirs.

VANDALS have smashed the paddle mechanism of a Leicester Lock, draining the pound and grounding boats.

Not a lot for boaters