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All change for the Broads

FROM this month the Broads are re-branded as Britain's Magical Waterland!
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Published: 02 July 2010

Bodge job was not for moorings

THE bodge job by the contractors at Marple where they left debris  in the canal was not to improve moorings but the towpath!

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Published: 02 July 2010

Sheffield clean-up

LOCAL MP Clive Betts will be visiting the waterway in Sheffield to see the start of the Adsetts Canal Project summer clean-up.

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Published: 02 July 2010

Questions on maintenance spending in Parliament

THE ongoing emails from boaters to their MP's on British Waterways' lack  of expenditure on maintenance is causing questions to be raised in the House of Commons, Alan Tilbury tells us.

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Published: 02 July 2010

Using the Ship Canal

AROUND 30 narrowboats took to the Manchester Ship Canal on their return from the IWA Tom Rolt's Centenary Rally at Chester.

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Published: 02 July 2010

Major operation to save duckling

A DUCKLING caused a great deal of effort by many people after it had come foul of the debris in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

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Published: 01 July 2010

Still over a week before Caen Hill opens

CAEN Hill Flight that was closed over a week ago will not be re-opened until Friday 9th July.

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Published: 30 June 2010

Another plan for Marsworth

AFTER the complains concerning British Waterways' plan for Marsworth Yard, a revised plan has been submitted, including boater facilities.
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Published: 30 June 2010

Past life on the waterways exhibition

A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition that reveals life on the canals in the 1940s and 50s is at present on show in Coventry.

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Published: 28 June 2010

Work on the Monty

A TEAM of seven members of the Shropshire Union Canal Society met for an extra day onto their normal working party schedule last week.

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Published: 28 June 2010

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