A NEW organisation has been formed to make it easier to obtain funds for the restoration of the Cromford Canal.
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AS PART of the development of Stourport Canal Basins as a major tourist destination, the temporary Heritage Information Room at the basin is to moved and recreated.
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BIRDS? No, not our normal kind, but the feathered variety that frequent the canal banks.
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THERE are plans for a 'cultural quarter' by the side of the Oxford Canal in Banbury that is being helped by £60,000 from the council.
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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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