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Manslaughter charge over canal death

THE man who was rescued from a Caen Hill Lock on the Kennet & Avon Canal has since died, and a woman arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

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Published: 02 April 2012

Worries about new predator

THERE are worries about a new waterways predator, that has already closed part of the Grand Canal in Ireland—the invasive New Zealand Pygmyweed.

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Published: 02 April 2012

Tunnel opened-up

THE tunnel that was constructed under Sellers Engineering when the Huddersfield Narrow Canal was restored, has been opened-up with the closure of the factory.

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Published: 02 April 2012

Canalside market sunk

IT IS not often that our committee meetings are accompanied by a bottle of Champagne, but at last week's meeting of the Regents Canal Conservation Area Committee in Camden Town, glasses of bubbly were raised to celebrate the refusal of the planning application for the Hawley Wharf Market development beside the Regents Canal, reports Del Brenner.

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Published: 31 March 2012

Daventry Reservoir very low

Your correspondent David Hymers has misled himself and all readers, as it is the smaller Drayton Reservoir, home to fishermen and yachtsmen and rarely used to top up the canals, which is brim full writes David Collins.

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Published: 30 March 2012

Misinformation on boating

A RECENT survey is promoting untrue information about the state of boating on the waterways.

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Published: 30 March 2012

£90,000 for Staff & Worcs

THOUGH £90,000 has just been spent on the Staff & Worcs Canal, alas not on leaking lock gates for the waterway but to improve the towpath.

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Published: 30 March 2012

Work on Norfolk canal

BETTER known for its Broads, Norfolk actually had a canal, that volunteers hope to eventually restore.

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Published: 30 March 2012

Are they insured?

In concert with previously expressed concerns over Two Chairs Hales, it suddenly occurred to me that we now have an individual who heads up not only a Public Corporation (British Waterways) but is now a director of a private limited company Canal & River Trust, writes Graham Freeman.

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Published: 30 March 2012

Tree closes Shroppie

THE Shropshire Union Canal has been closed all day today (Thursday)  owing to a tree falling over the waterway.

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Published: 29 March 2012

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