A DRUNK man had a lucky escape yesterday (Wednesday) when he stumbled into the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Shipley.
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THERE are plans for another residential tower block at Liverpool Docks—the third since last September.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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