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Under threat again

THE unique overhang warehouse at Brentford on the Grand Union Canal is under threat of demolition once again.

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Published: 10 December 2009

Trailer to be removed

BRITISH WATERWAYS has taken on itself to remove the dumped trailer from the Caldon Canal that was featured in narrowboatworld.

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Published: 09 December 2009

Narrowboat across the Mersey

IWA members are planning a crossing of the Mersey in June of next year to coincide with the Chester Branch Rolt Centenary event.

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Published: 09 December 2009

A slap in the face?

IS THIS A slap in the face to BW's most loyal boating customers?
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Published: 07 December 2009

Jail for towpath attackers

TWO teenagers have been jailed for attempting to kill a 15 years old pregnant girl on the Regent's Canal towpath and drown her.

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Published: 07 December 2009

Who pays?

FOR the past three months there has been a trailer dumped in the Caldon Canal at Milton.

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Published: 04 December 2009

Another statue

INSTEAD of the statue of cricketer Freddie Trueman being placed outside Skipton Town Hall, there are plans to erect it at the canal basin instead.

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Published: 04 December 2009

Waded canal to escape police

AFTER a burglary at an engineering firm in Huddersfield, a man waded across the Huddersfield Narrow Canal to escape police.

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Published: 04 December 2009

Better bridge for Birstall

A second new bridge over the Grand Union Canal above Leicester has just been opened, making Watermead Country Park more accessible.

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Published: 03 December 2009

Heritage milepost found

IT WAS some four to five years ago that work on Shebdon Embankment meant the heritage milepost situated opposite the Shebdon winding hole had to be removed to Norbury yard for safekeeping.

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Published: 02 December 2009

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