The depressing sight of Tyrley Top Lock on the Shropshire Union Canal closed up to traffic this morning (Friday) because of the problems at Shebdon Embankment. Since the water to feed all of the locks from here to Nantwich has to come past Shebdon, BW have actually remembered to close the locks to stop the pound between here and Knighton being drained, Richard Hall tells us, and with his picture. The problem is quite serious, and contractors are having to be called in to repair the canal bed.
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BOATERS are being advised not to moor in Middlewich as louts are terrorising moorers and damaging boats.
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WITH bats having been seen flying around Bowstring Bridge over the Soar in Leicester, planned demolition has been halted.
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RESIDENT boaters at a marina could be evicted as it does not have the necessary planning permission for people to live permanently on boats.
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ONCE again thieves have stolen paving from besides the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Wigan.
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ANYONE reading narrowboatworld will know that the Rochdale Canal is a favourite haunt for vandals, but it is getting so bad that a Canal Watch has been instigated by police and councils.
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OVER £5 millions is to be spent between November and March on maintenance and upgrading facilities of the locks on a single waterway—not BW locks however.
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A stunned silence from user groups has greeted British Waterways 2008/9 Annual Report and Accounts with the realisation that reserves are being used to prop up its failing property businesses, writes Allan Richards.
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AFTER the refusal to grant planning permission for the new marina at Lantham on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, another seems in jeopardy, this time on the Stratford Canal.
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