POLLUTION leaking into the Erewash Canal has closed a section until it can be cleared.
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WE have just returned from 14 weeks out on our boat. I make the following comments about vegetation ‘control' and continuous cruisers, writes Bob Hallam.
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SUCH was the success of the Fright Nights at the Halloween events at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port, that there is to be another this year.
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BOATS, bishops and bridges all had a part to play during a 65 miles walk from Blackburn Cathedral to Chester Cathedral by a team from Chester and Blackburn-based Adoption Matters Northwest.
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David Hymers rightly talks about the improvements to the Ashton Canal. Would that the same could be said about the behaviour of some of the local residents.
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MANY lock gates, particularly on the Trent & Mersey Canal, are extremely difficult to move, being wrongly installed, and it is a matter of some urgency that they are rectified before more people find cruising too much like hard work, and give it up.
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FORMER Cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, who is at present filming the television series Great British Railway Journeys, paid a visit to Tooley's Boatyard.
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THERE is to be a boatyard built on Brandy Island near Buscot Lock on the Thames despite opposition from the National Trust.
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There are plans for the development of Wood Wharf on the Thames at Blackwall, with architects appointed to devise a master plan for the whole 20 acres.
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Simon Grindrod is convinced that a lot of boaters agree with his assumption that it's okay that 'a high proportion of boaters are having(?) to break the rules'.
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