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Didn't need glasses

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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Published: 28 October 2009

No licence increase

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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Published: 26 October 2009

Narrowboats brought to 'life'

NARROWBOATS have been brought to 'life' in a series of childrens' books, prompted by a child seeing their faces.

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Published: 26 October 2009

No objection to new marina

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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Published: 26 October 2009

Arnonists fire narrowboat

A BOAT under restoration on the Aylesbury Arm has been fired by arsonists with most of the work destroyed.

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Published: 26 October 2009

Bid for Dudley tunnel centre

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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Published: 23 October 2009

Narrowboat as getaway 'vehicle'

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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Published: 23 October 2009

Doesn't please everybody

THOUGH there are many boaters looking forward to the opening of the new marina at Audlem, others are very much against it.

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Published: 23 October 2009

Change for giant heads

THE two giant horses heads planned for the Forth & Clyde Canal, considered a waste of money, are still going ahead but facing a different way.

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Published: 22 October 2009

Support for the lost route to the sea

REGULAR readers will be well aware of the sterling work of the Wey & Arun Canal Trust in restoring the 'lost route to the sea'.

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Published: 21 October 2009

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