THOUGH British Waterways will give £2,500 towards a swan fence that a support group wants erecting by the canal at Middlewich, it wants others to take on its long term maintenance.
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TIMBER has arrived at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port to restore some of the historic canal boats.
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THE inquest into the death of Sam McKane who died after slipping into the Erewash Canal in December was opened, then adjourned.
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THE Waterways Trust has secured a £124,000 grant from the Big Lottery for the Rochdale Canal around Manchester, but not alas for boating.
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A LIVEABOARD discovered that the bag of coal he went to buy at a garage proved very expensive indeed—over £585.
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A TRIAL of six activists accused of trying to shut down Ratcliffe Power Station that was suddenly dropped, is worthy of a James Bond plot.
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CONSTRUCTION of a marina at Stripes Hill Farm on green belt land near Knowle Bottom Lock on the Grand Union is underway, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Birmingham Canal Navigations Society work party January pantomime at Titford was performed on Saturday 8th. below lock number two of the Oldbury flight, writes Brian Holmes.
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THE proposed development by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Accrington will see the end of the sea cadets' headquarters as it will be demolished for space for new houses.
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THE pump-out facility at Wheaton Aston Services on the Shropshire Union Canal was closed on Tuesday after a boater had ruined it by using it to pump-out oil from his boat, Ralph Freeman tells us.
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