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I dread to think

LOOKING back over the past year at the way the waterways have deteriorated, I dread to think what 2018 will bring, writes Tom Crossley.

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Published: 29 December 2017

Encouraging use of the less known parts of the BCN

THE Birmingham Canal Navigations Society is organising two Explorer Cruises thus continuing to encourage the use of the less travelled parts and to discover the pleasures of the little used canals of the northern BCN.

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Published: 27 December 2017

Man falls in canal and dies after altercation

A MAN involved in an altercation fell into the Staffs & Worcs Canal at Kidderminster, and drowned, with it understood, three youths running off.

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Published: 27 December 2017

Boats getting through the summit pound

BOATS are managing to get through the summit pound of the Grand Union Canal, Howard Clarke reports.

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Published: 27 December 2017

Another attack on wood burners

ANOTHER attack on wood burning stoves in the capital is being launched in the form of a government investigation.

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Published: 25 December 2017

Caldon Canal closed for two months

THE repairs to Bedford Street Bridge (2) on the Caldon Canal have been amended resulting in the waterway being closed for two months.

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Published: 25 December 2017

IWA raised concerns about water supply

AN Inland Waterways Association statement has warned about the water supply to the BCN.

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Published: 25 December 2017

Short-cut claims another victim

THE short-cut along the Kennet & Avon Canal towpath at Newbury has claimed another victim.

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Published: 25 December 2017

Victor: It's not a mooring licence

THOUGH we have often given the National Bargee Travellers Association publicity, it having proved to help its members when in difficulty, it taking court action over a disabled member to get a less strenuous cruising pattern, when Canal & River Trust had already done so, was pointless.

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Published: 24 December 2017

Recreating history at Dartford

THE construction of a low road bridge over the Dartford & Crayford Navigation off the Thames stopped the passage of barges for good.

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Published: 24 December 2017

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