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Blown cill to be repaired at last

IT WAS way back on the 1st of June last year that a lock cill was found to be in need of replacement.

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Published: 25 August 2023

Lock beam falls off!

IT WAS quite a shock for a boater when he pushed the lock beam to open a lock gate and it fell off!

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Published: 25 August 2023

Waterpoint needs repairing yet again

THE good news is that the Hartshill waterpoint on the Coventry is back working again, having been repaired.

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Published: 25 August 2023

Saving the NHS £1.1 billion

I BELIEVE that someone should officially challenge that silly statement about the waterways saving the NHS money, writes  *'Arnold'.

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Published: 24 August 2023

Another waterpoint problem

READING about the failures of waterpoints I would like to remind your readers of another, writes Jeff Hardcastle.

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Published: 24 August 2023

Volunteers wanted for Bridgwater & Taunton Canal

VOLUNTEERS are needed for work on the Bridgwater & Taunton Canal.

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Published: 24 August 2023

Fund Gloucester's Waterways action group launched

FUND Gloucester’s Waterways’ (FGW) has been formed to provide support from the Gloucestershire area.

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Published: 23 August 2023

Leak on the Stainforth & Keadby Canal

A LEAK has been discovered on the Stainforth & Keadby Canal.

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Published: 23 August 2023

Another waterpoint failure on the Coventry Canal

NOW it's the second waterpoint out of action on the Coventry Canal.

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Published: 23 August 2023

Lock the paddles!

FOR the fourth time the paddles have been left open on Lock 1 on the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 23 August 2023

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Latest

  • Massive oak tree crushes narrowboat
  • Disused Shardlow restaurant could be new hotel
  • Suspended prison sentence for couple throwing dog into canal
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  • Too hot for the bridges
  • Protecting the Erewash Canal water
  • Calder & Hebble Navigation reopened
  • Rushall Canal still closed
  • Hoping to enable trapped boats to escape
  • Row between boaters and householders
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  • Ashing lock to save water
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  • Lack of water closing navigations
  • Pressure from IWA on the trust to reopen the Anderton Boat Lift
  • Too many stoppages
  • Sadly no Montgomery Canal Triathlon this year
  • Red weather warning across canals

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