A TRIP boat has started operating from Trent Lock on a trial basis, with permission given by Canal & River Trust for it to operate.
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WE WERE put in jeopardy by an absentee manager at Lock 14 on the Marple Flight (Peak Forest Canal) writes Hilary Rhodes.
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MICK Fitzgibbons writes that the overflowing sewage at Braunston has 'all the makings of a serious public health issue'—it does not have the makings of one, it is one. The sewage is next to a drinking water tap! Writes David Davis.
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WE ARE on our annual pilgrimage around the canals and have moored up in Braunston, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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IN ADDITION to the recent closures of three locks on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, another has now been closed.
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IT SEEMS that it is not only narrowboatworld that is concerned about Canal & River Trust's marina subsidiary, British Waterways Marinas Ltd (BWML makes a £877,642 loss!), writes Allan Richards.
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I'VE ONLY been living afloat for a short while, but the canals have been in my blood since I can remember. I used to think of them as a place where class, money, social mobility and all of the other 'trappings' of a capitalist system didn't reach' writes Gareth Haines.
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THE repair to Lock 8W on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal has now been completed and is open.
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THE first ever Leigh Canal Festival is to be held on the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
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