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A LEAKING canal is causing thousands of gallons of water to pour from a hole in a main road in Blackburn.

WORK has now stared on upgrading just under 800 yards of the Oxford Canal towpath into a cycleway—with passing places.

PONTOONS have been floated into place at the new Becket's Park Marina in Northampton, as the work progresses.

LUTON Angling Club is worried about its fish stocks in the Grand Union Canal as men have been seen taking them away for food.

A TOWPATH walker was attacked from behind as he walked by the side of the River Great Ouse in Ely, having to be treated in hospital.

A NARROWBOAT specially constructed for disabled children has been launched on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal by Bootle MP Joe Benton.

BRITISH Waterways realises the problem with errant cyclists on the upgraded towpaths, and tells us it would welcome constructive suggestions.

ACCORDING to the speakers at the Montgomery Canal Forum at Oswestry, nature was all important in the restoration of the waterway.

THE summit pound of the Chesterfield Canal at Kiverton is at present closed owing to third party pollution.

BRITISH Waterways is scrapping 40 of its workboats and ancillary equipment that is being auctioned off next month.

Canal leaks thousands of gallons