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Open Weekends at new marina

WHITE MILLS marina on the Nene is hosting a series of Open Weekends to allow prospective moorers to inspect the facilities at the new marina.

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Published: 14 January 2016

Lancaster closed again

STAINTON Aqueduct on the Lancaster Canal has suffered structural damage and is safeguarded by a dam, closing off the waterway.

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Published: 13 January 2016

Not fit for purpose

YET again, Canal & river Trust report that  the sanitary station at Braunston is out of action.

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Published: 13 January 2016

Broads Authority to evict 41 boating families

THE Broads Authority has issued 41 eviction notices to houseboat moorers at the western end of Thorpe Island in Norwich, that has been a recognised mooring site for nearly 100 years—since at least 1922.

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Published: 13 January 2016

Shroppie lock ladders safer

IT WAS many years ago that our then contributor, Richard Swann, pointed out the unsafe lock ladders on some of the locks on the Shropshire Union Canal.

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Published: 13 January 2016

Grantham ignores its canal

The Grantham Economic Development Draft Plan that has been published completely ignores its canal, making no reference to it whatsoever.

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Published: 11 January 2016

Springs Branch closed

A ROCK fall into the Springs Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool  Canal at Skipton has completely closed the waterway.

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Published: 11 January 2016

CaRT's silence on Wendover pollution

A WEEK ago Thames Water was fined a massive £1m for allowing repeated discharges of pollution from its Tring Sewerage Treatment works into the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal. 

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Published: 11 January 2016

50 years old towpath death re-opened

THE murder of a young woman on the towpath of the Calder & Hebble towpath over 50 years ago has been re-opened by the police.

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Published: 11 January 2016

The reality of flooding waterways

WE MUST all know of the devastation caused to homes by the recent flooding over Christmas and the New Year, but boaters too have suffered considerably, and here we see the reality of flooding waterways.

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Published: 09 January 2016

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  • Lengthsman 2026: Reimagining Waterways Asset Management
  • More Leeds & Liverpool woes
  • Eight hours of sewage in navigation
  • Again it is two usual stoppages
  • Atherstone Flight reopens with restrictions
  • Overnight tunnel work to save daytime closure
  • Clean-up of the Nene
  • Replacing rail bridge will affect navigation
  • Key developments from the Whitchurch Canal breach
  • Gloucester Docks closed for dredging
  • Winter works programme published
  • A further stoppage on Kennet & Avon Canal
  • Trip hazards causing tripping into canal
  • New Junction Canal could be closed for months
  • The Whitchurch Arm now closed
  • Profiteering at the expence of stranded boaters
  • Narrowboat recovered from Bath Deep Lock
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  • Gloucester Docks still silted-up

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