CLIMBING up Adderley Locks yesterday (April 26th) Lock 3 (pictured below) leaks so badly that we had to use the boat to push open the top gate, as level water could not be reached, writes Ralph Thomason.
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HARD on the heels on the news of the closure of Wooton Top Lock on the Kennet & Avon Canal, a further lock is now closed to navigation on the waterway.
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OWING to the new descriptions regarding stoppages, is there another boat sunk in a lock?
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YOU can always tell when the boating season starts—by the increase in the number of boats sinking in locks.
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ONE police officer at least jumped into a waterway without first undertaking a 'dynamic risk assessment' with his superiors, so saving a man's life.
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ANOTHER show over the Bank Holiday weekend will be at Droitwich in Vines Park by the Droitwich Canal.
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A TEENAGER drowned in the Lea Navigation (Drowning teenager was not helped) after the police refused to enter the water to rescue him.
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IN A blow to those who want the Grand Union Canal restored into Daventry, protesters against it marched through Daventry to show their opposition to plans to extend the waterway into the town.
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WITH heart-rendering stories of woman and children being made homeless and great hardships being suffered by the members of the Bargee Travellers Association on the Kennet & Avon Canal will the government see through its demands?
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NARROWBOATS on the Kennet & Avon Canal are being targeted by burglars at the rate of one a day.
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