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Landslip closes T&M

A LANDSLIP by Barnton Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal has closed the waterway.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Email: Stavely Basin

I don't want to rain on the parade, but I just don't see the point of spending over half a million pounds on Staveley Basin on the Chesterfield Canal when it doesn't go anywhere and no boats can use it.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Email: Tool hire

I disagree with Pam Pickett. Hiring in tools from specialist hire companies, especially with increasingly complex and specialist tools that do a wide variety of tasks is clearly the right way to go.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Another narrowboat burnt-out

ANOTHER narrowboat has been added to the every increasing list of those being destroyed by fire.

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Published: 22 January 2012

First narrowboat at Staveley

A CROWD of delighted spectators welcomed the narrowboat John Varley into Staveley Town Basin yesterday (Friday)—the first boat into the the new basin.

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Published: 21 January 2012

Hand rails for lock tail bridges

AFTER the death of the boy who attempted to cycle across the lock tail bridge at Stourport over the Staffs & Worcs Canal, British Waterways is to take action with lock tail bridges.

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Published: 20 January 2012

Man seeks girl who saved him

THE 74 years old man who fell into the Coventry Canal at Tamworth wants to find the girl who saved him, then walked away.

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Published: 20 January 2012

Boaters angry at massive increases

BOATERS using the rivers Great Ouse and Cam are furious at changes to the licensing system which could mean an increase in licence fees of up to 23% and fragmentation of a waterway.

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Published: 20 January 2012

Litter boat sinks

A LITTER boat, in the form of a dredger was commissioned to clear the rubbish that was discarded around the Watersports Centre and Lowry Outlet Mall area of Salford Quays, has sunk!

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Published: 19 January 2012

Waterways History Workshop

THE interesting annual Waterways History Workshop, organised by the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society, that is generally well attended, is to be held once again, Brenda Ward tells us.

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Published: 19 January 2012

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