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Searching for mileposts

CANAL enthusiast Jon Pontefract is tramping the derelict Thames & Severn Canal in an attempt to find its old mileposts.

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Published: 17 October 2011

High Bridge too narrow

THE High Bridge at Woodseaves Cutting on the Shropshire Union Canal is too narrow to take heavy vehicles that are now using it as a 'rat run' complain locals.

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Published: 17 October 2011

Canal & River Trust need a dog

A SEARCH is underway to find a ‘canal loving canine' to front a marketing campaign for the charity taking over from British Waterways.

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Published: 17 October 2011

Why are we waiting?

IT WAS in early August that the new Long Horse Bridge was to be lifted into position over the Trent at Derwent Mouth, then opened shortly after.

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Published: 17 October 2011

Coffee and crochet

THE second crochet group exhibition has been opened at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port.

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Published: 15 October 2011

Staff and pupils build narrowboat

A BRAND new boat is being built for use on the restored Chesterfield Canal that will be fitted-out by the staff and pupils of the nearby  Eckington School.

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Published: 15 October 2011

Boat thieves cleared

TWO men who stole a narrowboat that was moored near Kentish Town Lock on the Regent's Canal have been cleared of stealing the boat.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Volunteer skippers wanted

VOLUNTEER skippers are needed for a new wide beam boat that  takes young and disabled people for trips on the Grand Union Canal at Hemel Hempstead.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Canal festival too popular

IT SEEMS that Linslade Canal Festival this year was too popular, with the huge number of visitors causing health and safety concerns for the local council.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Another marina rejected

THE plans for a marina at Stripes Hill Farm on the Grand Union Canal at Knowle have been turned down on appeal.

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Published: 14 October 2011

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