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Man arrested for 'narrowboat' death

A MAN has been arrested over the death of a woman on a narrowboat moored on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 10 October 2014

Partnerships raised just £25,000 in three years

THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) Waterways Partnerships, some of which were formed three years ago, have raised just £25,000 towards the work of the Trust, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 October 2014

Nothing hilarious about it

A MAN attempting to jump across a narrow lock in Birmingham who fell into the water has been described as hilarious, but there is nothing hilarious about it.

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Published: 10 October 2014

How far you have not moved

I SUSPECT that there is confusion between what the GPS recording system is expected to do and what it is not. CaRT has no need to prove how far you have moved, be it 20 miles or 200. What they do need to do is to identify those who appear not to have moved (enough), writes Mike Todd.

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Published: 09 October 2014

Boat at work after 25 years

THE Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum's former working narrowboat Sculptor, which has lain idle since being an exhibit in 1986, was loaded with coal at the bottom of the Stoke Bruerne lock flight last weekend, working the first time for 25 years.

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Published: 09 October 2014

Mooring auction petition

WITHIN hours of the narrowboatworld article being published calling for Canal and River Trust's mooring auctions to be scrapped (Scrap them both) a petition has been started asking Cart's Trustees to withdraw its mooring consultation, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 09 October 2014

David: Fradley not so badly affected

IT IS very good news that Fradley Junction will no longer be so badly affected by the route of the new HS2 railway, thanks to the IWA commissioning an engineering firm to design a different route that will actually be cheaper.

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Published: 09 October 2014

Huddersfield closed again

THIS time it is the quadrant to the towpath side tail gate under a balance beam that has collapsed.

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Published: 09 October 2014

Cruise the restored Chesterfield

FOR those of you who would like to see what the Chesterfield Canal Trust has done over the years, there are full day return cruises on the restored waterway, with plenty of choices.

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Published: 09 October 2014

Another on the cill

THIS time there is a boat well and truly stuck in Ironbridge Lock at Rickmansworth on the Grand Union Canal.

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Published: 08 October 2014

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