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Plans in again for marina

THOUGH the plans for a marina at North Kilworth on the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal were refused last year, it is being proposed again.

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Published: 13 January 2011

Foam and scum on the Shroppie

EXPERTS are at present investigating the appearance of foam and scum on the Shropshire Union Canal at Audlem.

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Published: 13 January 2011

Problem with swan fence

THOUGH British Waterways will give £2,500 towards a swan fence that a support group wants erecting by the canal at Middlewich, it wants others to take on its long term maintenance.

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Published: 12 January 2011

Timber for the boats

TIMBER has arrived at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port to restore some of the historic canal boats.

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Published: 12 January 2011

Erewash Canal death inquest

THE inquest into the death of Sam McKane who died after slipping into the Erewash Canal in December was opened, then adjourned.

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Published: 12 January 2011

Rochdale Canal gets £124,000

THE Waterways Trust has secured a £124,000 grant from the Big Lottery for the Rochdale Canal around Manchester, but not alas for boating.

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Published: 12 January 2011

Coal cost boater £585

A LIVEABOARD discovered that the bag of coal he went to buy at a garage proved very expensive indeed—over £585.

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Published: 12 January 2011

Boater had double life as activist

A TRIAL of six activists accused of trying to shut down Ratcliffe Power Station that was suddenly dropped, is worthy of a James Bond plot.

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Published: 10 January 2011

Stripes Hill construction starts

CONSTRUCTION of a marina at Stripes Hill Farm on green belt land near Knowle Bottom Lock on the Grand Union is underway, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 January 2011

In the muck

THE Birmingham Canal Navigations Society work party January pantomime at Titford was performed on Saturday 8th. below lock number two of the Oldbury flight, writes Brian Holmes.

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Published: 10 January 2011

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