THE Friends of Dawn Rose have a novel and exciting way to raise funds for your organisation or your favourite charity. Your team can pull a 70ft long, hand-built, wooden narrowboat—the Dawn Rose— along the Chesterfield Canal.
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RIVER Canal Rescue (RCR) is speaking at this year’s Flood Expo—the world’s biggest flood prevention exhibition and conference—explaining how boat salvage and recovery keeps the UK inland waterways clear, manages flood risks and supports the environment.
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HERE we go again, the start of a new season and the closures have started already!
It's the poor Oxford that fails just in time for Easter at Broadmoor Lock (24) near Cropredy, Keith Gudgin tells us. No definite reason reason given by Canal & River Trust, just that it is 'maintenance'. Update: Re-openes this afternoon, Thursday.
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THE 'Boats Are Homes' march has just taken place by the National Bargee Travellers Association, with it states around 200 taking part.
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AN OLD historic narrowboat, built in the 1930s has been restored and converted into a bar and café and floated at Bristol Harbour.
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A NEW narrowboat moored at British Waterways Marinas Ltd Glasson Dock caught fire, with the owner calling the fire brigade.
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CYCLIST Ted Williamson was on his usual route home along the Chesterfield Canal towpath when he had a never-to-be repeated experience.
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THE Canal & River Trust want you to make your boats to look pretty—and will give you a prize or a colourful certificate if you do so!
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THE National Bargee Travellers Association is organising a demonstration at Westminster about the lack of moorings in London believing that Canal & River Trust is taking over existing moorings to rent out.
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BELOW is an article about a narrowboat that sank on the Lee, with the occupiers losing everything, but the story has a twist, as the boat was rented, with the occupiers getting a very poor deal indeed, that however seems common on the London waterways.
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