TWO cars driven into two different canals have resulted in a fatality in one and a very lucky rescue in another.
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TWO men sitting on a lock beam on Wigan Flight on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, sprang up and assaulted a towpath walker at knife point, robbing him of his cash.
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AFTER a great deal of representation, St. Pancras Cruising Club has managed to get the security services responsible for the Olympics, to allow access through Commercial Road Lock at Limehouse Basin.
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WITH joy riders using a car park on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal as well as fly tipping, British Waterways had little option but to lock it.
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THE well known television archaeologist, Mark Horton, who appears on Coast and other programmes, is to open the Cotswolds Canals Trust's Stroud on Water Festival in June.
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LIKE many other events in that part of the country, the organisers of Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum's Annual Gala are hoping for rain, lots of it, before June, but tell us British Waterways will do its level best to get boats through despite lock restrictions, and to maintain water levels.
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IT WAS whilst cruising the Trent & Mersey Canal in Stoke-on-Trent that boaters Stuart and Maureen Emery lost their cat Mac. But the cat did come back—after six years!
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AROUND 50 boats from across the canal network are expected at the four day Boat Gathering at Ellesmere Port Museum.
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THE rather long passage of the Olympic Torch will be including Foxton Locks, as part of the Olympic Relay Route.
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A BOATER, living on a narrowboat at Barton was described as a 'gullible fool' after paying money from a fraud into his bank account.
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