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£2m for art on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal

IT WAS announced today (Thursday) that £2 millions is to be spent on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal as the centrepiece of a creative corridor for the arts.

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Published: 09 May 2013

Success at Loughborough

LAST week-end's Canal Boat Festival at Loughborough was a success, helped by the glorious weather.

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Published: 09 May 2013

IWA June work parties

HERE are the dates of the work parties for June, organised by the various branches of the Inland Waterways Association.

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Published: 09 May 2013

Looked in vain

WHILST I welcome a new face on the Bridge (or should that be hand on the Helm?), I looked in vain for a relationship Richard [Parry] may have had with a charity, writes Jimmy Lockwood.

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Published: 09 May 2013

Email: IWA seats

Regarding Robert Hawkins' email, by the looks of it, did not read my comment thoroughly.

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Published: 09 May 2013

Email: Electing members

I read with interest the comment that the IWA should relinquish the seats of its members who were elected to the [CaRT] council.

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Published: 08 May 2013

Narrowboat stolen

EX HIRE narrowboat, 60ft Samshiba, was stolen from its moorings at Kegworth on the Soar—it's thought in the early hours of last Monday morning, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 08 May 2013

CaRT at work

WE ARE getting reports of work being doing on removing vegetation from the sides of the waterways, and many in a better condition after winter work.

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Published: 08 May 2013

New jobs for volunteers

IN ADDITION to their main tasks of helping boaters through locks and litter picking, volunteers along the Calder & Hebble Navigation have a new task.

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Published: 08 May 2013

Opportunities for Scottish Canals

WITH  the renaming of British Waterways to Scottish Canals in Scottland, the transport minister there believes their revival will offer 'real opportunities, not only for recreation and regeneration, but for the wider economy as well'.

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Published: 08 May 2013

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  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed
  • Long closure caused by building demolition
  • Just one puppy lived of three dumped on canal towpath
  • Could be a long stoppage at Kennet & Avon lock

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