A SUNKEN narrowboat in the Oxford Canal at Somerton Deep Lock has caused the Oxford Canal to be closed.
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THE Canal & River Trust is making its Open Day at St Pancras Lock on the Regent's Canal something more than a tour of the drained lock.
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THE very well known boaters' breakdown and emergency assistance firm, River Canal Rescue (RCR), has been named a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer in the annual list compiled by the National Apprenticeship Service.
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IT WOULD seem that there is a new trend of dumping golf carts—or whatever they call them—being dumped in bridge holes, succeeding in stopping navigation.
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ONE matter has been ‘conveniently' overlooked by those proposing, or commenting, on the widening of the towpath in Edgbaston Tunnel, writes Jimmy Lockwood.
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THE Farm Shop at Aston Marina on the Trent & Mersey Canal is to close, the owners believing that using the premises to extend the restaurant will be more successful.
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THE robberies on the towpath in Hackney Wick on the Lee Navigation are getting so bad that the police have been called to step up patrols.
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THE urge to turn towpaths into cycle tracks as we all know is now well up on the agenda, with the latest being to widen the towpath through Edgbaston Tunnel on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.
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PEEL Holdings, that operate the Bridgewater Canal have told us that it is shortening the length of the stoppage to replace a bridge over the waterway.
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IT IS perhaps a worrying thought that many boaters have cruised over an unexploded bomb in the Thames—us included!
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