IN A very weak-sounding response, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, declined to call-in the unpopular planning consent for building four large blocks of flats on Essex Wharf in the Lee Valley Regional Park.
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OUR Ralph Freeman thought that boaters would like to see a few photographs of the endangered species taken at Sandon Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal.
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AS PREVIOUSLY reported, British Waterways is recruiting people to sit on the various Boards, and is at present concentrating on the West Midlands and North West areas.
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THE Wey & Arun Canal Trust has recently launched a new initiative aimed at encouraging young people to volunteer with tasks such as helping with the trip boats and certain restoration works along the line of the canal.
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BOATERS can perhaps feel a little safer navigating the Aire & Calder, as the emergency services have just completed a practice river rescue at Castleford.
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IN VIEW of the drastic cuts in services, local councils are requesting Stroud District Council that is giving millions to the restoration of the Stroudwater Canal, to spend the money on local services instead.
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THE boat breakdown rescue service company River Canal Rescue (RCR), is warning boaters of the dangers of the the canals after saving boats in the past year.
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ONE of the Midlands canals' hidden treasures is to be recognised as being amongst the most significant sites of Britain's transport heritage.
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THE downturn in boating, and the resulting lack of new boats being wanted, has resulted in yet another good boat builder going.
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A MAN who drowned in the Erewash Canal at Long Eaton had been on a pub crawl just hours before he walked the canal towpath and fell in.
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