THIS morning (Monday) seven Star Class historic working boats are loading up at Paddington Basin with 100 tons of gravel that needs to be transported up the Grand Union Canal to Atherstone just north of Birmingham, about 120 miles.
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THE girl who rescued the woman boater who fell in the waterway twice, as reported in narrowboatworld has now told what actually happened.
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AS PART of the Bridgewater Motor Boat Club's cruise to support the Tom Rolt Centenary celebrations at Chester, 31 of its members brought their boats back along the Manchester Ship Canal.
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THE Environment Agency has built eel passes on the Nene, and Kyme Eau to help the creatures migrate around flood defences.
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HOT on the heels of the closure of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, comes news that the Weaver too is closed by a problem at Saltersford Lock.
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THE Birmingham & Fazeley Canal was closed on Friday (2nd July) with the long pound above Minworth Flight very low and unnavigable, after being breached.
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THE bodge job by the contractors at Marple where they left debris in the canal was not to improve moorings but the towpath!
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LOCAL MP Clive Betts will be visiting the waterway in Sheffield to see the start of the Adsetts Canal Project summer clean-up.
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THE ongoing emails from boaters to their MP's on British Waterways' lack of expenditure on maintenance is causing questions to be raised in the House of Commons, Alan Tilbury tells us.
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