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Duke to visit engine house

HIS Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is to visit Crofton Engine House at Pewsey on the Kennet & Avon Canal during June.

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Published: 01 June 2012

Police scouring canal basin

POLICE are scouring Salterhebble Basin on the Calder & Hebble Navigation for the body of a woman who disappeared nine years ago.

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Published: 01 June 2012

Boater's chase shock

A BOATER moored in Gloucester on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal had a shock when first a suspected burglar then the police chased across his moored narrowboat near Sainsbury's.

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Published: 01 June 2012

Beware of that beam

THOUGH British Waterways have promised to raise the dangerous steel beam at Falling Sands Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal, boaters are still complaining of its danger.

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Published: 01 June 2012

Waterways future looks grim under CART

THOUGH many non-boating bodies will benefit, and will be celebrating the move from British Waterways to Canal & River Trust (CART), the people who use the waterways and who pay for them—the boaters—will most certainly not, but will instead witness a constant deterioration, as Allan Richards explains:

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Published: 01 June 2012

See your boat thief

A COMPANY has updated its wireless operated system that not only detects a boat being broken into but can send a 10 second video clip of the thief to the owner's mobile!

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Published: 31 May 2012

Hirer crushed against bridge

A HIRE boat crew member, hanging onto the side of the boat on the gunwale, had his chest crushed as he was trapped between the steel hull and the bridge.

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Published: 31 May 2012

Boats arriving at Etruria

MANY decorated historic canal narrowboats are arriving at the junction of the Trent & Mersey Canal for the Etruria Jubilee Canals Festival.

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Published: 31 May 2012

Festival at new basin

CHESTERFIELD Canal Festival this year will be held at the new Staveley Town Basin, with the Chesterfield Canal Trust running all three of its trip boats along the restored waterway.

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Published: 31 May 2012

Another youth drowns after trying to jump lock

AN INQUEST has heard how a teenager, trying impress his girl friend attempted to jump across a narrow lock, but fell in and drowned, with the girl friend also drowning.

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Published: 31 May 2012

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