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£1,195 costs for speeding boater

THERE is one waterway where boaters really must not speed—and that's the Thames.

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Published: 22 January 2010

Volunteers wanted

STROUD District Council must use volunteers to both meet a condition of the £11.9million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and also to keep the restoration project of the Stroud Canals within budget.

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Published: 21 January 2010

The Broads can do it

THE Broads Authority have no trouble meeting its target for dredging its waterways, even exceeding it.

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Published: 21 January 2010

Lucky escape on the Soar

INVESTIGATIONS are going on into how two teenagers were allowed to take to the flooded Soar in Leicester from the Outdoor Pursuits centre on a raft.

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Published: 21 January 2010

Waiting for permission

THOUGH a bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Todmorden is is urgent need of repair, work cannot start.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Boat fire was arson

THE police maintain that arsonists were responsible for the narrowboat fire on the river at Ware.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Anglers castigated

ANGLERS are being castigated in letters to local papers and blogs after a swan had to be put down after suffering for weeks through anglers' insensibility to the creatures, and 45 others effected.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Girl murdered on K&A towpath

A TEENAGE girl was found dead yesterday (Monday) on the towpath of the Kennet & Avon Canal at Reading.

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Published: 19 January 2010

Unsafe moorings

IT WOULD seem the permanent moorings at Tyrley on the Shropshire Union are not too safe.

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Published: 19 January 2010

"I'm a plonker!" says boater

A BOATER who took his narrowboat out in flood conditions and had it jammed against a bridge described himself as a 'plonker'!

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Published: 19 January 2010

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  • Flood warning on the Trent
  • Water, water, everywhere
  • Still no paddles for lock on Glasson Branch
  • More problems at Penkridge Lock
  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters

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