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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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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ANOTHER boater on the Thames has saved a drowning man in the river—the second within a month.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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EARLIER this winter narrowboatworld reported that dredging contractors had caused a leak on the Coventry Canal at Hopwas.
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