A CROWD of delighted spectators welcomed the narrowboat John Varley into Staveley Town Basin yesterday (Friday)—the first boat into the the new basin.
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AFTER the death of the boy who attempted to cycle across the lock tail bridge at Stourport over the Staffs & Worcs Canal, British Waterways is to take action with lock tail bridges.
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THE 74 years old man who fell into the Coventry Canal at Tamworth wants to find the girl who saved him, then walked away.
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BOATERS using the rivers Great Ouse and Cam are furious at changes to the licensing system which could mean an increase in licence fees of up to 23% and fragmentation of a waterway.
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A LITTER boat, in the form of a dredger was commissioned to clear the rubbish that was discarded around the Watersports Centre and Lowry Outlet Mall area of Salford Quays, has sunk!
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THE interesting annual Waterways History Workshop, organised by the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society, that is generally well attended, is to be held once again, Brenda Ward tells us.
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THE two canal bridges over the Trent & Mersey Canal at Woodend Lock for the new high speed rail link will be raised to allow boat passage underneath, we have been informed.
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IT IS understood that the expected 1,000 boats flotilla on the Thames to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee will have narrowboats taking part.
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A COUNCIL is worried about the condition of two waterways in its district and has formed a management strategy to help safeguard their future.
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BRITISH Waterways Stuart Mills, Director of Property maintains the selling of Wood Wharf will provide the waterways with a significant long term financial contribution to waterways.
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