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Cash for Mon & Brec

A TOTAL of £1.5m funding is allowing further restoration of the Mon & Brec, that has now started.

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Published: 14 May 2012

A silly chugger?

SOME weeks ago British Waterways held a press briefing on its plans for fundraising as the Canal & River Trust (CART). That press briefing confirmed several narrowboatworld reports that CART would not be a membership organisation.

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Published: 13 May 2012

More Buckingham Canal restoration

AYLESBURY Vale District Council has now given planning permission for the restoration of a stretch of the Buckingham Canal at Bourton Meadow.

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Published: 13 May 2012

Possible manslaughter charge

HAVING read the comments with regard to the newly installed hazard to our heads at Falling Sands Lock I think it pertinent to make comment, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 12 May 2012

Another CART committee

THE latest committee for the Canal & River Trust (CART) is the Volunteering Advisory Committee.

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Published: 11 May 2012

Leicester Arm opens today

AFTER many weeks of closure and restrictions, the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is open again to boating today (Friday).

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Published: 11 May 2012

Completely lost the plot

WHEN I first saw the picture of the RSJ that had been installed at neck height on the Staffs & Worcs lock, I thought it must be a mistake, writes James Henry.

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Published: 10 May 2012

No new canal link

THE proposed plans for a new canal link of the Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal to Dymock have fallen through.

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Published: 10 May 2012

Off with our heads

HERE is a picture of the latest Health & Safety lunacy—a hand rail support designed to chop off boaters heads!

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Published: 10 May 2012

Quieter exhaust water-lock

A NEW design of exhaust water-lock has been produced by Vetus, that is claimed to result in half the normal noise level.

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Published: 09 May 2012

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Latest

  • Water, water, everywhere
  • Still no paddles for lock on Glasson Branch
  • More problems at Penkridge Lock
  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed

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