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Help on Wigan Flight

STARTING at the end of this month, Canal & River Trust will be arranging help for single handed boaters using the Wigan Flight on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 14 March 2016

No licences for CCs if they don't comply

THE Canal & River Trust has announced that it will no longer issue short term boat licences for those continuous cruisers who do not meet the terms of of their licences, by refusing to move continuously.

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Published: 11 March 2016

Your views on dredging invited

THE West Midlands Waterway area of the Canal & River Trust has recognised that the best information it can get regarding areas of its waterways to dredge is from the people who use them—the boaters.

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Published: 11 March 2016

A passengers' view

IN ALL it's nearly 16 years, though narrowboatworld has given endless stories of boaters it has never given that of a passenger on a combined bus and trip boat, so here we rectify the omission.

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Published: 09 March 2016

Elsan used for oil

THE Elsan disposal unit on the Lee Navigation at Stonebridge Lock is out of action as it has been used to deposit used oil.

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Published: 09 March 2016

Rochdale partly opened in six weeks

WORK has now started on the clear-up of the debris dumped into the Rochdale Canal by last year's Boxing Day floods (Floods cause significant damage) but it will take six weeks to complete one section.

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Published: 09 March 2016

Can we or can't we?

CAN we or can't we travel along the Nottingham Canal? That is the question, but not one easily understood from Canal & River Trust's stoppages notices.
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Published: 09 March 2016

Many cyclists pushed into Regent's Canal

THE cyclist who was pushed off his bike and into the Regent's Canal, (Cycling boater flung into canal) was one of many, the police have revealed.

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Published: 09 March 2016

Sunken boat moved at last

THE boat that sank in the Ashby Canal on the 3rd February, partly blocking the waterway, (Left abandoned in Ashby Canal) has now been removed.

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Published: 07 March 2016

The Candy Boat cometh

WITH the start of the boating season approaching and more people around, the Candy Boat is back in business after its winter sojourn.
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Published: 07 March 2016

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Latest

  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed
  • Long closure caused by building demolition
  • Just one puppy lived of three dumped on canal towpath
  • Could be a long stoppage at Kennet & Avon lock
  • How the boat rescue was undertaken
  • Rain, rain and more rain
  • Two problems at Keadby Lock
  • Boaters emptying cassette toilets into canal
  • Stoke-on-Trent museums at risk
  • Seven months closure ends
  • Moorers taking part in Dogs Behaving Very Badly

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