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THE EVER FAILING Keadby Rail Drawbridge is once again operational.

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Published: 05 December 2025

Water has to be run down every morning

SUCH IS THE LEAKAGE from Marsworth Flight that water has to be run down every morning.

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Published: 04 December 2025

Leigh Branch reopens after burst water main

IT WAS BACK IN AUGUST when United Utilities started work on the burst water main under the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 04 December 2025

Exhibition featuring Manchester Ship Canal

AN EXHIBITION IS TAKING PLACE of rare maritime artifacts and personal memorabilia of the Manchester Ship Canal.

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Published: 04 December 2025

BCN teams up with Fund Britain's Waterways for cruise

THIS YEAR THE Birmingham Canal Navigation Society (BNCS) have teamed up with the Fund Britain’s Waterway Campaign to jointly organise an Icicle Cruise to Walsall Town Arm over the weekend of the 20th/21st March 2026, Keith Gudgin reports.

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Published: 04 December 2025

Richard Parry patron of Avon Navigation Trust

FORMER CANAL & RIVER TRUST Chief Executive Richard Parry has become a Patron of the river championing Avon Navigation Trust. (ANT).

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Published: 04 December 2025

Paddington Arm will be in a canyon

A LONG-RUNNING BATTLE by the Grand Union Canal in Paddington has resulted in a 600 bed Baltic Wharf student towers project being built.

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Published: 03 December 2025

Landowner causes Worcester & Birmingham Canal to remain closed

THE WORCESTER & BIRMINGHAM CANAL and towpath is closed by a fallen tree in the waterway at Shortwood Tunnel West Portal.

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Published: 03 December 2025

Macclesfield swing bridge out of action

ONCE AGAIN THE Royal Oak Swing Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal is out of action.

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Published: 03 December 2025

Win a year's RCR Silver Membership (or a place on a maintenance course)

TO CELEBRATE River Canal Rescue’s 25th anniversary, managing director, Stephanie Horton, is giving away prizes throughout the year.

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Published: 03 December 2025

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Latest

  • Canal to be closed for a month
  • A new event at Banbury
  • Works not finished in time for Easter
  • Restrictions on the Rochdale Canal to save water
  • Possible boatyard for Oxford after 20 years
  • Four paddle failures already this month
  • De-wintering tips from River Canal Rescue
  • Smoke control comes into force for narrowboats in Bimingham
  • Three stoppages still ongoing
  • EA stops Bristol Floating Harbour funding
  • Braunston Customer Service Facility now closed
  • Marsworth Flight reopened
  • Stoppages on Rochdale and Tame Valley canals
  • Another paddle failure
  • Another broken paddle on the Rochdale Canal
  • Environment Agency clearing more abandoned boats off the Thames
  • Attack just off the Coventry Canal towpath
  • Another mile of the Stroudwater Canal in water
  • Ripon takes the record
  • Canal town best place to live in the North

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