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Out she comes

AFTER  four weeks on the bottom of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, the narrowboat Stepping Stone was re-floated yesterday (Thursday), Peter Lloyd tells us.

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Published: 26 February 2010

Plastic boobs caused alert

WHEN a towpath walker alerted the emergency services to a body in the Union Canal at Linlithgow, everything went on full alert.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Boaters save drowing men

ANOTHER boater on the Thames has saved a drowning man in the river—the second within a month.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Beginner had to be rescued

A WOMAN who was  seduced into the idyllic life of waterway living had a rude awakening into its realities when she took to the Avon in flood conditions, and had to be rescued by firefighters.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Teenager staggered into canal

A TEENAGER was seen to stagger onto the ice of the Union Canal in Merchiston, and fall through it into the water at 7am on Tuesday morning.

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Published: 25 February 2010

Narrowboat—on the Grantham!

FOR THE  first time in over 70 years, there is a narrowboat on the Grantham Canal, but alas not because the waterway has been reconnected to the Trent.

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Published: 25 February 2010

What will they dump next?

BRITISH Waterways staff are well used to dragging supermarket trolleys and the like from the waterways, but a complete box trailer?

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Published: 25 February 2010

Fish Night in March

IF YOU fancy fish and chips of a Friday night, cooked especially for you, then the Old Chandlery Restaurant at Sawley Marina would be a good choice.

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Published: 24 February 2010

Minutes mayhem

YET AGAIN British Waterways has been reminded of the obligation under law to reply promptly to requests under the Freedom of Information Act, (FoI) writes Allan Richards. This time it is over Board minutes rather than maintenance spend.

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Published: 24 February 2010

Dredging leak?

EARLIER this winter narrowboatworld reported that  dredging contractors had caused a leak  on the Coventry Canal at Hopwas.

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Published: 24 February 2010

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