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—A VERY FIRM favourite with visitors and residents alike, us included, at Mercia Marina, was the Willow Tree Tea Room.

THE MOORINGS AND TOWPATH at Nantwich on the Shropshire Union Canal are to be closed.

THE YORK LOCK gates leading onto the Foss in York are to be replaced at a cost of £1.3 million.

TWO OF THE broken swing bridges have been repaired with navigations reopened.

WE ARE RESTORING the derelict Chesterfield Canal in Derbyshire, writes Rod Auton of the Chesterfield Canal Trust.

THE BOATERS' Big Bash’ Event to be held this year at Westbourne Park on the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED that the repair to the breach in the Bridgewater Canal will take until December 2026!

IT WAS THE RSPCA to the rescue when four distressed ducklings became trapped on a canal ledge between two locks on the Aston Flight in Birmingham.

THE NORTHERN WATERWAYS have seen little navigation by boats over the past four winter months.

IT WOULD SEEM that most publications in the country have latched onto the story of the possible opening of the Bradford Canal.

That was the Willow Tree Tea Room—that was!