BOATERS cruising the tidal Thames can perhaps feel a little safer as the river will have a new lifeboat, thanks to Ross Brawn of Formula One.
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ENVIRONMENT Secretary, Caroline Spelman, has lashed out at a Guardian columnist (and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central) for suggesting that Treasury Chief, Danny Alexander, is considering selling off British Waterways' assets as part of a £400m fire sale.
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A FAIR FUEL campaign has been started with its aim to stop the government increasing fuel duty even further.
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GLASGOW lacks an attractive waterfront, and being somewhat jealous of other cities and towns, intends making its own more impressive.
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BRITISH Waterways has announced the price adjustments for its long-term moorings for customers with 12 months mooring permits.
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IT WILL be just like being on the Cam at Cambridge, as punts will soon be available for hire on the River Great Ouse at Bedford.
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TO PROMOTE the latest edition of the Adlard Coles Book of Diesel Engines Waterscape is asking boaters to compose a canal limerick.
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UPGRADING three miles of the Thames towpath through Oxford has cost nearly £2 millions.
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WHILST British Waterways have been active encouraging crayfish, particularly in the Oxford Canal, it doesn't want them in the Kennet & Avon Canal.
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THE OLD 300ft chimney at the derelict Bolton's Copper Works is in danger of falling into the Caldon Canal and on to the Churnet Valley Railway, so a conservation order was slapped on it last week so it can't be demolished!
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