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More barriers wanted

ONCE again the death of someone leaving a night club after heavy drinking and falling into a waterway has caused a demand for barriers.

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Published: 16 February 2012

Bikes, Boats 'n' Boots

VARIOUS groups are organising a triathlon on the towpath of the Montgomery Canal as an endurance challenge.

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Published: 16 February 2012

Opening up the tunnel

IT COST  a great deal of money to move all the machinery out of Sellers Engineering in Huddersfield, dig out the old canal, put a roof on it, and put the machinery back, but it's now all opened up again.

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Published: 16 February 2012

Another 'Narrow' Open Day

THERE is to be another chance for the public to see inside a drained lock on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal this month.

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Published: 16 February 2012

Don't want punts or canoes

THE rowers that use the River Great Ouse in Bedford do not want to share the river with punts and canoes.

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Published: 16 February 2012

Princess Anne visits Cotswold Canals

PRINCESS Anne visited a restored section of the Cotswold Canals on Friday 10th February, meeting the people involved and opened a new lock and bridge.

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Published: 16 February 2012

Hanged under canal bridge

EARLY morning towpath walkers were shocked to discover a man hanging by his neck under a canal bridge over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan.

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Published: 15 February 2012

Email: 100% is achievable

I must complain about the statement by Mike Todd this morning that 100% occupancy of berths at marinas is unachievable, and that when a space becomes vacant there will always be a period of vacancy as the space is advertised, let and the new tenant takes it up.

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Published: 15 February 2012

Boater jailed for assaulting angler

A narrowboat owner who took umbrage against an angler and his children has been jailed for seven years for using a Taser on the angler and firing a shotgun.

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Published: 15 February 2012

Email: 100% unachievable

Geoff Smith seems not to have much insight into managing occupancy—marina berths are, I suspect, much like renting properties where there are more data sources.

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Published: 15 February 2012

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