IT WAS announced today (Friday) that Brierfield Mill at Burnley on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is to be turned into a boarding school for 5,000 Muslim girls.
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FETED when new, commissioned by BW, but as it never functioned properly, left for years sinking and rusting away on the Grand Union at Bull's Bridge.
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THE boater involved in the mooring argument at Garstang on the Lancaster Canal earlier this year, as reported in narrowboatworld has been arrested, and remanded on bail to await trial.
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A DUCK has been discovered floundering in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Accrington, with a pair of glasses fast round its neck.
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NO, IT'S not British Waterways who are pegging licence fees, but Essex Waterways, the subsidiary company of IWA which manages the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation.
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NARROWBOATS have been brought to 'life' in a series of childrens' books, prompted by a child seeing their faces.
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NEWCASTLE Borough Council's planning officers have no objection to the proposed new marina on the Shropshire Union Canal at Soudley near Market Drayton.
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A BOAT under restoration on the Aylesbury Arm has been fired by arsonists with most of the work destroyed.
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A BID has been made to Dudley Council for the construction of a visitor centre at the Dudley Tunnel, it was announced this week.
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THIEVES used a narrowboat as a getaway 'vehicle' to make off with five tons of aluminium they had stolen from a Bloxwich company.
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