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Decapitation guaranteed

ROD Fox's picture of the new 'safety' rails at Falling Sands Lock only tells part of the story, writes David Hymers.

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Published: 16 May 2012

Destroyed boat to be replaced

REGULAR readers may remember the report in narrowboatworld of the boat used by the Clear Cut Conservation group being torched and destroyed, but now a new one is to be built.

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Published: 14 May 2012

Cash for Mon & Brec

A TOTAL of £1.5m funding is allowing further restoration of the Mon & Brec, that has now started.

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Published: 14 May 2012

A silly chugger?

SOME weeks ago British Waterways held a press briefing on its plans for fundraising as the Canal & River Trust (CART). That press briefing confirmed several narrowboatworld reports that CART would not be a membership organisation.

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Published: 13 May 2012

More Buckingham Canal restoration

AYLESBURY Vale District Council has now given planning permission for the restoration of a stretch of the Buckingham Canal at Bourton Meadow.

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Published: 13 May 2012

Possible manslaughter charge

HAVING read the comments with regard to the newly installed hazard to our heads at Falling Sands Lock I think it pertinent to make comment, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 12 May 2012

Another CART committee

THE latest committee for the Canal & River Trust (CART) is the Volunteering Advisory Committee.

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Published: 11 May 2012

Leicester Arm opens today

AFTER many weeks of closure and restrictions, the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is open again to boating today (Friday).

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Published: 11 May 2012

Completely lost the plot

WHEN I first saw the picture of the RSJ that had been installed at neck height on the Staffs & Worcs lock, I thought it must be a mistake, writes James Henry.

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Published: 10 May 2012

No new canal link

THE proposed plans for a new canal link of the Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal to Dymock have fallen through.

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Published: 10 May 2012

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