Not just a couple, or even a few, but lots and lots of canoeists going into Foulridge Tunnel on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, many without the required light of course, but we expect there is safety in numbers! (Photo Barrington Courts/Getty Images.)
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LET'S start with the Anderton Boat Lift—it's out of action—as it often is during the cruising season.
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IT WAS way back in 2006 that the then British Waterways issued its advice on the use of motorcycles on the towpaths.
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IT WILL not be so easy to get into the Stratford River Festival this week-end, as the organisers are concerned about recent terror attacks so are putting in security measures.
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WITH doubts being raised by various contributors about gas lockers being padlocked or left unlocked we contacted the fire people with a representative telling us that quick means to turn off the gas must be available in the case of fire. We then received information from a long standing BSS examiner:
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I THINK the term 'motorbike' is rather restrictive, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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A MAN living on a narrowboat moored at Long Itchington on the Grand Union Canal has been jailed for 20 months after grooming and sexually assaulting a girl he knew was only 14 after arranging to meet her ‘away from prying eyes’.
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SUCH was the popularity of the 'Over and Under the Hill'—through and over Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal that it has been arranged again for the end of July.
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THE New Islington Marina was constructed in 2013 as part of a new short waterway connecting the Rochdale and Ashton canals in Manchester, accommodating resident boaters, but they have been told they have to vacate the marina for 12 months.
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THE Macclesfield Canal is closed again, this time by the damaged Royal Oak Swing Bridge.
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