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Lock 'Open Day'

FREEMAN'S Lock on the Grand Union Canal in Leicester that is having new gates, will have an 'Open Day' this Saturday and Sunday.

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Published: 28 January 2016

New bridge over Regent's Canal

A NEW bridge for walkers and cyclists has been designed to span the Regent's Canal by St Pancras Lock.

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Published: 28 January 2016

NABO victory on lock ladders

THE Environment Agency (AE) has scrapped controversial plans that would put Thames boaters lives at risk.

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Published: 27 January 2016

Cromwell reopens

CROMWELL Lock on the Trent is open again to navigation, with the damaged boom across the weir now repaired.

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Published: 27 January 2016

Two drowned in Avon car crash

A CAR that is stated as being driven too fast around a bend crashed into the canal that skirts the weir on the Avon in Bristol, with the car sinking and the two men inside drowning.

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Published: 25 January 2016

Defibrillators at marinas

IN ADDITION to the installation of a Automated External Defibrillator at Sawley Marina, British Waterways Marinas (BWML) Ltd have now installed one at its Diglis Marina in Worcester.

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Published: 25 January 2016

Work starts on clearing Calder & Hebble

WITH its water levels now low, work has started on clearing-up the debris left in the Calder & Hebble Navigation after the floods.

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Published: 25 January 2016

Best interests of the waterways

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Chief Executive, Richard Parry, has claimed that a proposed sell-off of part of the Lee ‘is in the best interest of the waterways'.

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Published: 25 January 2016

EA Oxford flood relief clanger

THE Environment Agency proposals for Thames flood relief at Oxford could result in boaters being made homeless.

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Published: 25 January 2016

Sunken Soar boat raised

THE narrowboat that sank in the Soar near Kegworth just before Christmas has been raised and the navigation is now clear.

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Published: 25 January 2016

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