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Funding help to find Cuckoo boat

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust has received funding of £10,000 that it will use to attempt to discover a Cuckoo boat.

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Published: 18 January 2017

Doesn't anybody check?

IT REALLY takes some believing that CaRT can on its website say the broad Hatton Locks were built in the 30s using modern methods yet one of them also say they were built by pick axes and shovels, writes James Henry.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Fight on Thames boat

SUCH was the ferocity of a fight on a boat on the Thames near Westminster Pier that three people had to be rushed to hospital.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Read with total disbelief

I READ the report on the clearance of the top end paddle at Woodend Lock with total disbelief, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Boats moved from Gloucester Museum

THE boat displays at Gloucester Docks are to be removed, Canal & River Trust state to enable refurbishment of the waterway museum.
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Published: 16 January 2017

Acton Swing Bridge repair

THE  Acton Swing Bridge that carries the busy A49 over the Weaver is to be repaired at a cost of £1.5 million.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Paint in the Calder

THE crash of an HGV carrying paint on the M606 near Bradford has released white paint into the Calder.

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Published: 16 January 2017

See the trend?

THE Canal & River Trust produces implausible statistics of the number of visitors to its waterways about which there's no way of challenging, writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Rock legend backs canal restoration

DAVE BERRY, famous for classic hits such as The Crying Game, has been appointed as Restoration Ambassador for the Chesterfield Canal Trust.

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Published: 16 January 2017

East Coast flood warnings

THE current flood warnings affecting the East Coast also affect the Ouse and the eastern rivers, with boaters told to keep away.

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Published: 13 January 2017

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