BRITISH Waterways has received £7,000 of funding from English Heritage to carry out maintenance and improvement work over three years on side ponds of Hanwell Flight on the Grand Union Canal.
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THE long running national waterways festival organised by the Inland Waterways Association will not be held next year.
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ONCE again there is the warning to would-be swimmers in the waterways from British Waterways not to do it!
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THE illegal immigrant Bangladesh man who raped a woman by the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley, and attempted a rape of another was given an indeterminate sentence at Preston Crown Court.
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THREE drinkers leaping into the Ouse from a pub garden in York sparked off a full emergency operation after the men were seen in the water.
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THERE is curiosity surrounding the case of a drowned man in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Leeds on Saturday.
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IT WAS 100 years ago that Gem carried a cargo over the Cotswolds from Saul near Gloucester to Lechlade on the Thames, the last boat to do so before the waterway was closed.
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CHESHIRE Cat Narrowboat Holidays has taken another step towards its goal of providing greener boating holidays, by switching to a renewable energy supplier.
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THERE was muddle at British Waterways on Monday concerning Diglis Lock, with a stoppage notice issued stating it was closed for all boats.
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THE cast iron bridges and the leaning chimney by the Bath Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal have been restored.
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