THE spate of continuing break-ins and anti-social crime around the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) has prompted a Canal Watch scheme.
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IT SEEMS that thieves have realised that unoccupied narrowboats are an easy target, as there really is a frenzy of break-ins at the moment, all over the system.
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THOUGH the new Cropredy Marina was due to open at the start of the season, (Cropredy Marina delayed) the extreme weather over the past months has prevented this happening.
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THE offside of Hatton Flight on the Grand Union Canal is now better to negotiate after five days of clearance by members of the Inland Waterways Association Warwickshire Branch.
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A MAN who spent his life on water, first as a merchant seaman and then as a boater, running canal trips for disadvantaged children and community groups, had his perfect 'send-off' in a narrowboat coffin.
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JOHN Wonfor was so impressed by the work of the Macmillan nurses, who took care of his wife when suffering bowel cancer, that he has undertaken a six months canal cruise on little more than a motorised raft.
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FOLLOWING the closure of the Aylesbury Arm on the Grand Union Canal owing to the collapse of lock wall, now comes the closure of the Slough Arm, owing to the failing of a bridge.
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READERS may have noticed an article that we published concerning the Environment Agency's attitude to the restoration of the Avoncliff Mill on the Avon, that was later taken down.
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AQUEDUCT Marina at Nantwich now has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) installed by the North West Ambulance Service, able to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims.
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ONCE again a distraught mother has blamed the lack of fencing of a canal for her two years old son falling in, but a local council spokesman stated this was not feasible.
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