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Extra funding from Lottery

A FURTHER £50,000 has been awarded from the  People's Postcode Lottery this month to Canal & River Trust, bringing the total this year to £225,000.

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Published: 18 June 2014

Richard in the North West

THIS time Canal & River Trust Chief Executive Richard Parry was giving a questions and answers session at Burnley, covering the North West waterways:

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Published: 16 June 2014

Good service

Late in the evening we heard the water pump start up. It ran a bit longer than usual. A few moments later it started up again, then again then again, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 16 June 2014

Dredging the Trent & Mersey

THE Canal & River Trust has started to dredge the Trent & Mersey Canal between Stenson Lock and Swarkestone Lock in Derbyshire.

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Published: 16 June 2014

A Bernard

THE lock gates shelter at Warwick's Saltisford Canal Trust is just one of a number of improvements that have taken place in recent years, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 16 June 2014

Worse at Stenson

IT IS now even worse attempting to lock through the broad Stenson Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

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Published: 16 June 2014

Water shortage

TWO days without rain and there is a water shortage on the Rochdale Canal, with the summit pound locked up at 4pm.

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Published: 15 June 2014

Still raising money

THE company Fox Narrowboats of March are still raising money for the British Heart Foundation, with the latest scheme being a charity boat trip.

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Published: 14 June 2014

Sunken boat with no steerer

A SUNKEN narrowboat in a Middlewich Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal caused confusion yesterday (Friday) when no one was found in attendance.

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Published: 14 June 2014

Lock gates shelter

TO MARK the 30th Anniversary of the Saltisford Canal Trust, a Canal Contemplation Area; a major new landscaping project in its canal-side gardens has been undertaken.

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Published: 12 June 2014

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