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Another tower for Liverpool Docks

THERE are plans for another residential tower block at Liverpool Docks—the third since last September.

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Published: 06 April 2017

Launch of the Montgomery Appeal

FOLLOWING recent grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Inland Waterways Association, organisations promoting the restoration of the Montgomery Canal have come together to launch an appeal for the next stage of its restoration.

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Published: 05 April 2017

Aylesbury Arm closed again

DURING the past two years the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal has been closed five times, and today, as the paddles have given up the ghost and closed Locks 1 and 2 it is closed again.

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Published: 05 April 2017

Great Open Day at Clayworth

THE Chesterfield Canal was a glorious sight in bright sunshine, with dozens of boats moored for many hundreds of yards in both directions along the canal bank at the Open Day at Clayworth.

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Published: 05 April 2017

Flight open—then closed again

OWING  to pollution, the Northampton Flight of the Grand Union Canal was closed to navigation on Sunday (2nd),  then re-opened the following day.

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Published: 05 April 2017

'No Entry' is there for a reason

THIS morning two, obviously not too sensible, boaters decided to ignore the rather large  'No Entry' signs on the Trent by Sawley Lock and take a cruise up river towards the weir—and became well and truly stuck!

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Published: 04 April 2017

Victor: Not an April Fool joke


ONE or two of you have congratulated us on the April Fool 'Egg' story. But alas, it was no April Fool joke.

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Published: 02 April 2017

The 'Bargees' have missed this one

WE ARE surely all aware of the the policy of the 'Bargees', but they have missed a trick to get long term moorings without a proper licence—as one fella has.

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Published: 01 April 2017

Oh Dear!

Oh dear! Indeed—if you wanted to take your narrowboat over the Edstone Aqueduct at Wootton Wawen on the Stratford-on-Avon Canal.

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Published: 31 March 2017

Mostly litter for nest

SUCH is the amount of litter in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Blackburn, that it has killed natural growth with t5he result that the swans can only build their nests mostly out of rubbish.

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Published: 30 March 2017

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Latest

  • Two more lock closures
  • Puppies rescued from canal towpath
  • Nantwich residents worried about their water supplies
  • Foxton Swing Bridge closed again
  • Lack of water closes Shropshire Union Canal
  • Cheshire Cat Narrowboat Holidays to the rescue
  • Boat fire kills man and his dog on Christmas Day
  • Towpath lighting missing in the city
  • Another sunken narrowboat closes canal
  • Latest on the Llangollen breach
  • Broken lift bridge needs a repair solution
  • Not such a Happy Christmas on the Weaver
  • How a defective culvert can cause canal embankment collapse
  • Statement by Canal & River Trust on the Llangollen Canal breach
  • Repairs not ready for Christmas
  • Rarely have canals made national news
  • Canal breach site regularly inspected!
  • Bird Flue strikes the swans on the Avon
  • Conflicting information concerning the breach
  • Massive sink hole drains huge pound of Llangollen Canal

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