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Pole vaulting over canals

EVERY SUMMER PEOPLE gather at a canal in Holland to attempt to pole vault across it.

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Published: 09 July 2025

A very strange one

BOATERS OFTEN get strange stoppage notices, but there was a very strange one concerning the Ouse.

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Published: 09 July 2025

Another sexual attack by the Nottingham Canal

FOLLOWING ON THE previous two sexual attacks on the Nottingham Canal comes yet another.

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Published: 07 July 2025

Grand Union Canal closed

TEN MILES OF THE Grand Union Canal are now closed to navigation.

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Published: 07 July 2025

South Stratford Canal closed

THE LACK OF WATER is now affecting the southern canals with the South Stratford closed.

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Published: 07 July 2025

No way to remove sinking narrowboat

A NARROWBOAT ON THE CAM that is sinking cannot be removed.

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Published: 07 July 2025

Police and dive team descend on Manchester canal

AFTER A CORDON was set up by the Rochdale Canal in Manchester the body of a man was pulled from the water.

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Published: 07 July 2025

Victor believes these date mix-ups are not at all helpful

SALTERHEBBLE GUILLOTINE LOCK on the Calder & Hebble Navigation broke down on the 17th June.

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Published: 05 July 2025

Dry weather navigation update

FOLLOWING THE driest spring since 1893* and continued hot sunny weather, with parts of England already officially in drought, the Canal & River Trust is advising that water availability across some parts of the canal network is under strain.

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Published: 04 July 2025

Plot of land by Leicester Section sold

A SMALL PLOT of land by the Leicester Section in the city by Little Glen Bridge has been sold.

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Published: 04 July 2025

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  • Victor reckons a stoppage a day keeps the boaters away
  • Rubbish scattered about
  • Liverpool docks liable to close
  • Swarkestone Lock fully closed
  • Now developed a design
  • Council give boaters freedom from new Smoke Control Order
  • Senior project manager wanted to oversee Anderton Boat Lift repair
  • Possible for boat movement through Marsh Lock
  • Pinch me!
  • Woman takes on towpath litter-picking
  • MP highlights underinvestment in local canals
  • B&Q volunteers solve a Chesterfield Canal Trust problem
  • Trust's Annual Public meeting will be live
  • Nothing like a morning dip!
  • Paddles and gates left open
  • Vandals ruined life-saving kit
  • Market Drayton refuse collection point closure
  • Two people charged as part of investigation into canal death
  • The Harecastle Tunnel fault
  • Victor tells of the season just about finished

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