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That U boat

THE photograph of the U boat caused quite a bit of interest, and it is actually fitted-out as a U boat as the following picture shows.

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Published: 20 October 2010

Hire Boat company bucks the trend

ANGLO-WELSH is obviously not suffering from the financial downturn, as it has 15 new boats on order over the next four years.

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Published: 20 October 2010

Open letter from Tony Hales

BRITISH Waterways Chairman, Tony Hales has produced an 'open letter' concerning the future of the waterways, which we publish in full:

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Published: 20 October 2010

Success with signs

WOKING Borough Council recently erected signs concerning  'Cycle Woking'  on the Basingstoke Canal, with people complaining how awful they were, as was reported in NbW.

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Published: 20 October 2010

Man thrown into canal

A MAN was attacked on the towpath of the Rochdale Canal on Sunday (17th October) and thrown into the waterway.

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Published: 20 October 2010

Report reveals bleak outlook for the waterways

AFTER a two year study, the Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) has identified 'serious flaws' in the organisation and funding of the inland waterways of England and Wales, believing the outcome to be bleak.

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Published: 02 October 2010

"Dive, dive, dive!"

BELIEVE it or not it's a narrowboat, pictured by John Whitehead near Botany Bay on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 01 October 2010

Dangerous liaisons

IN RESPONSE to the words of Michael Shefras I cannot believe that anyone could even begin to think of combining the Environment Agency with British Waterways, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 01 October 2010

Boaters' alarming incident

IT IS not only carbon monoxide that sets off that alarm but hydrogen too, as two boaters found out.

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Published: 01 October 2010

'BW mutualisation could fail'

THAMES User Group (Navigation) coordinator Michael Shefras has warned that should British Waterways 'mutualisation' include Environment Agency navigations it will entail extraordinary upheaval with a risk of failure.

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Published: 01 October 2010

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