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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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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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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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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THE bridge over the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stenson that had its parapet destroyed when a farmers' trailer toppled through it, is to be repaired at an estimated cost of £200,000.
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MANY boaters have met Adrian Lane, one of the riverside rangers on the Leicester section of the Soar, whose small team have won a bid for funds from the Leicester & Rutland Criminal Justice Board.
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