BRITISH Waterways is celebrating the importance of volunteers to the nation's canals and rivers by recognising ten groups across the regions whose work, it states, has dramatically benefited the waterways over the past 12 months.
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BRITISH Waterways who put Tardebigge New Wharf residents' cottages up for sale without giving residents notice or first choice to buy, have backed down after an MPs involvement.
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SOME ten years ago cruising through Burton-on-Trent on the Trent & Mersey Canal was fairly rural at its northern side, but massive development brought many houses.
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THE RSPCA is asking anglers to take more care when fishing as their hooks are causing distress to swans on the River Great Ouse near Ely.
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WORK is now well underway on the the smaller of the two locks at Vale Royal on the Weaver including the wall that collapsed six years ago.
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A TEENAGER was mugged on the towpath of the Rochdale Canal at Todmorden on Tuesday and left very shaken.
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DRESSED in old costumes of the day, boaters and visitors celebrated 200 years of the Grand Union Canal on Monday (12th October).
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NEXT year Inland Waterways Association is to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Tom Rolt, one of its 'founding fathers'
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THE closure of the Shropshire Union Canal by the leak at Shebdon Embankment has led to more calls for compensation from Market Drayton's mayor.
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THOUGH the Hollinwood Canal is infilled by Manchester Road Bridge in Droylsden, the possibility of its eventual restoration has been guaranteed by the erection of a footbridge over the former waterway at an height to allow boats.
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