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Email: Cycles off towpaths

This weekend saw a serious report on the national news networks concerning the danger and harm posed by motorcycles and off road 4x4 vehicles using green lanes in the North of England.

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Published: 31 October 2011

APPWG recalled

THE All Party Parliamentary Waterways Group (APPWG) has been recalled by its chairman, Rt Hon Alun Michael MP, and will be meeting today, 31st October 2012, to review governance and funding issues relating to British Waterways move to the third sector as the Canal & River Trust.

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Published: 31 October 2011

Oldest dredger saved

AN APPLICATION to the Heritage Lottery Fund  by Friends of Gloucester Waterways Museum for money to repair the oldest steam dredger has proved successful.

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Published: 31 October 2011

'Low life out there'

AN INSURANCE company is warning boaters to look after their possessions on their boats as there is 'low life out there'.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Council pay for restoration

THE Three Rivers District Council is to donate half of the money required to restore a traditional narrowboat at present moored at Rickmansworth.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Don't want automated weir

WITH a weir on the Thames protecting Appleton, the residents are up in arms after being told it will no longer be operated by a lock keeper but will be automatic.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Schoolgirl rape and armed attacks on towpaths

FOLLOWING hard on the heels of the news of a man severely beaten and thrown in a canal and two teenagers found drowned in another, is the news of a young schoolgirl raped on a canal towpath and a armed gang attacking a man on another towpath.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Two teenagers drown in canal

TWO teenagers have been found drowned in the Birmingham Level Main Line Canal near Brasshouse Bridge at Smethwick.
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Published: 27 October 2011

Mug Tug goes pink

THE Mug Tug is a paint-a-pot studio in a narrowboat moored at Barton Marina, and its owner is encouraging people to wear pink to support its fund-raising programme for a breast cancer charity.

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Published: 27 October 2011

Prince Charles takes to the towpath

ON A visit to Burnley this week Prince Charles took to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath in the town when he visited the Weavers Triangle.

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Published: 27 October 2011

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