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Derwent Mouth Lock being repaired

FOR MANY months narrowboatworld has been campaigning about the ever deteriorating state of a top gate of Derwent Mouth Lock where the Trent & Mersey Canal leaves the Trent.

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Published: 16 July 2010

Search for descendants

THE SEARCH is on for the descendants of the eight signatories of the petition for a waterway connecting the Grand Union Canal with the River Great Ouse.

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Published: 16 July 2010

Automatic lock—going down

KENTISH TOWN Road Lock at Camden on the Regents Canal is automatic—when going down.  But a pain when going up.

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Published: 16 July 2010

WRG help Chesterfield restoration

MEMBERS of the Waterway Recovery Group are busy building a wall by the Chesterfield Canal in Staveley this week.

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Published: 15 July 2010

High Court moorings challenge

A HIGH COURT challenge has been launched against the installation of visitor moorings on the Brent by a Brentford Councillor.

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Published: 15 July 2010

Anglers halt canal restoration

THE UK angling association Fish Legal, in a test case, has warned the Northern Ireland Government that it faces legal action for what it sees as unlawful action in restoring the Lagan Canal.

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Published: 15 July 2010

One drowned one recovered

THE BODY of a man was found in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Marsden this morning (Wednesday).

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Published: 14 July 2010

Tom Puddings return to Leeds

FOR THE first time in nearly 30 years, the historic Tom Puddings  will return to Leeds as part of this year's Leeds Waterfront Festival celebrations.

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Published: 14 July 2010

Drunk jumped into canal

THE police had to rescue a man who threatened to take his own life, then jumped from a bridge into the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Wigan.

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Published: 14 July 2010

Unlicensed on the Regent's

THOUGH British Waterways boasts of its clearance of unlicensed boats and those permanently on lock moorings on the London waterways, boaters are still discovering plenty.

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Published: 14 July 2010

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