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Thames to get cable car

GREENWICH Council has approved the construction of a cable car across the Thames East of Tower Bridge.

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Published: 31 January 2011

British Waterways transition trustees

THE Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking to appoint seven ‘transition trustees' from April this year.

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Published: 31 January 2011

Paddington Arm thieves problems

THE police have had to be brought in to protect narrowboats on the Paddington Arm that have been  targeted by thieves.

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Published: 31 January 2011

Kennet & Avon Trust problems

THE Kennet & Avon Canal Trust is having problems with falling membership, lack of cash and now disappearing chairman.

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Published: 30 January 2011

Comment—Home to roost

THE flood at Barton Turn has certainly brought home the necessity for regular inspection of the waterways, previously undertaken by lengthsmen, who had knowledge of the possibility of such occurrences.

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Published: 30 January 2011

Luckier lurchers

REGULAR readers will remember that horrific story of two lurchers left hanging by their necks on  a cold New Years Eve on a Grand Union Canal bridge.

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Published: 28 January 2011

The confusion of biofuel

THE subject of biofuel is so confusing and complicated, (unsurprisingly), and I quite agree with Pam that it's been badly thought through, writes Lisa Machin.

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Published: 28 January 2011

Essex Wharf—the end?

THE fight is on to save the historic Essex Wharf at Lea Bridge on the Lee Navigation from four 'monster' blocks of flats, that have unexpectedly been given planning consent.

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Published: 28 January 2011

Waterways job-seekers

THE waterways in Stoke are being transformed as part of a scheme that gives unemployed people a route back to work.

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Published: 27 January 2011

Vandals attack water taxi

SUCH are the problems with vandals in Spalding that its water taxi service has had to be moved.

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Published: 27 January 2011

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