VOLUNTEER awards are now coming thick and fast as British Waterways move towards its new charity status, with its dependence on volunteers.
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A TOWPATH attack, not by a canal but the River Great Ouse at Bedford, when three Asian youths attacked two men walking by the river.
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AN APPEAL for sponsorship has been launched across the Bedford & Milton Keynes Trust membership, community groups, schools, colleges and local businesses seeking support for the Trust's latest venture—the Bedford Community Boat.
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BRITISH Waterways has stated it welcomes the start of the three months Government consultation into the future of inland waterways in England and Wales.
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THE news that Assembly Member Jenny Jones of the Green Party will stand against Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone in next year's Mayoral election in London should please all who use the city's waterways.
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BRISTOL Docks is a favourite place for people to abandon their boats, so Bristol City Council is putting them up for sale.
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A GROUP of volunteers from the Chesterfield Canal Trust and Retford Civic Society, pulled out a wide variety of 'treasure' from the Chesterfield Canal in Retford.
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WITH it now being the age of the volunteer, at least our waterways will be considerably less rubbish strewn, with those volunteers of Loughborough fishing a record 21 bikes out of the waterway.
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FOLLOWING swiftly behind the news that the number of visitors to British Waterways' canals and rivers fell in 2010, comes news that boating is also in decline, writes Allan Richards.
A DERELICT Boathouse in Back of Avon at Tewkesbury cannot be demolished as it houses bats.
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