Just a few of the 100 narrowboats that arrived at West India Dock, Docklands today (Friday) for scrutineering before the Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the Thames on Sunday.
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HIS Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is to visit Crofton Engine House at Pewsey on the Kennet & Avon Canal during June.
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POLICE are scouring Salterhebble Basin on the Calder & Hebble Navigation for the body of a woman who disappeared nine years ago.
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A BOATER moored in Gloucester on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal had a shock when first a suspected burglar then the police chased across his moored narrowboat near Sainsbury's.
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THOUGH British Waterways have promised to raise the dangerous steel beam at Falling Sands Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal, boaters are still complaining of its danger.
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THOUGH many non-boating bodies will benefit, and will be celebrating the move from British Waterways to Canal & River Trust (CART), the people who use the waterways and who pay for them—the boaters—will most certainly not, but will instead witness a constant deterioration, as Allan Richards explains:
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A COMPANY has updated its wireless operated system that not only detects a boat being broken into but can send a 10 second video clip of the thief to the owner's mobile!
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A HIRE boat crew member, hanging onto the side of the boat on the gunwale, had his chest crushed as he was trapped between the steel hull and the bridge.
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MANY decorated historic canal narrowboats are arriving at the junction of the Trent & Mersey Canal for the Etruria Jubilee Canals Festival.
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CHESTERFIELD Canal Festival this year will be held at the new Staveley Town Basin, with the Chesterfield Canal Trust running all three of its trip boats along the restored waterway.
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