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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AFTER a burglary at an engineering firm in Huddersfield, a man waded across the Huddersfield Narrow Canal to escape police.
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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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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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A BRITISH lubricants company is ensuring that the first phase of the Cotswold Canals restoration runs smoothly.
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THE Environment Agency blame pollution for the diminishing stocks of fish in the Soar.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT of a pay rise for British Waterways directors will come as something as a shock to the public and employees alike, writes Allan Richards.
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THE plans to turn Brierfield Mill at Burnley on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal into a school solely for Islamic girls is unlikely to go ahead.
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There has been another narrowboat fire, this time on the Kennet & Avon Canal at Hilperton.
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WHEN the buildings at Calverly on the Shropshire Union Canal were converted into a maintenance depot and a service block, the water point was removed.
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