A VOLUNTEERING programme for young people in the North West—Waterways Action Squad—has celebrated the achievements of over 900 young people who have given their time as part of the two years waterway volunteering project.
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AS PART of British Waterways' need to protect and maintain the waterways, supervisors and operational staff have received training from Heritage Craft Alliance, covering the maintaining of brickwork, masonry and lime mortar.
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A DEVELOPMENT company has been refused funding for a marina on the Montgomery Canal.
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GLOUCESTER County County has made £900,000 in fines from motorists crossing Llanthony Bridge over the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal.
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THE Folk on the Water festival has raised around £3,000 for its two charities with its festivities.
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WE ALL know that nowadays British Waterways seem to have little interest in boaters' facilities, and have read of sanitary stations and the like being non-operational or even closed down.
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SUCH is the addiction to warning signs these days, that the signs themselves are becoming dangerous, as the one on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is proving.
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WORK has started on Staveley Town Lock on the Chesterfield Canal, with two week-long work camps.
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A TRIAL will start this week of water buses for use at the Olympics, ferrying people from Limehouse Basin to the western entrance of the Olympic Park at Old Ford Lock on the Lee Navigation.
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THE Wey & Arun Canal Trust's funds recently increased by £600 thanks to a donation from the Guildford & Reading Branch of the Inland Waterways Association.
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