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Victor: Water shortage closures!

IT TAKES some believing in view of all the recent rain, but CaRT is closing part of the Grand Union Canal tomorrow, Monday, owing to lack of water!

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Published: 10 March 2019

End of March before Aston Lock opens

THE Canal & River Trust tell that the broad Aston Lock on the Trent  & Mersey Canal will not be open this week as originally planned.

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Published: 08 March 2019

Upgrade of Standedge Café

FALLING interest in Standedge Tunnel and its visitor centre has prompted an upgrade to the Waterside Café.

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Published: 08 March 2019

River search for missing man

WATER search teams have been out on the Severn in an attempt to  find the missing Stephen Colledge.

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Published: 08 March 2019

Severn causing problems to lock repair

THE repair of Gloucester Lock will not be completed in time for the new boating season.

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Published: 08 March 2019

Leeds & Liverpool stoppage extended

THE stoppage to repair Sandholme Aqueduct has been extended.

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Published: 08 March 2019

Will be closed for a while

WolverleyLandSlipThis is the scene at present at Wolverley on the Staffs & Worcester Canal where a landslip was caused by a leaking Severn Trent water pipe. There is still no sign of any work being done—only surveyors and engineers looking at it and, hopefully, deciding what to do.

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Published: 07 March 2019

Volunteering is not so happy-go-lucky

AS A boater of long years standing, when I sold it I wanted to still be involved with the canals and so volunteered as a lock keeper, writes Joe Parkin.

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Published: 07 March 2019

Boat pull to raise funds

THE Friends of Dawn Rose' of the Chesterfield Canal Trust are again organising a sponsored pull of the narrowboat.

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Published: 07 March 2019

Narrowboat sinks in lock

A NARROWBOAT sank in a Poolstock Lock at Wigan but had to be left owing to darkness falling.

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Published: 06 March 2019

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