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Towpath walker brutally assaulted

THE police have released a photo of a 70 years old woman who was brutally attacked on a canal towpath walking with her daughter in the centre of Birmingham.

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Published: 03 November 2014

Victor gets results!

ONCE again our Victor Swift has achieved results, and quickly too, as the hire boat Horizons, moored for 11 days on the 48 hours Gunthorpe moorings on the Trent, was moved yesterday within hours of Victor bringing it to  Canal & River Trust's notice.

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Published: 03 November 2014

Drunk hirers sank boat

IT HAS  been revealed it was a stag party of boozing hirers that sank the boat in Wash House Lock on the Bath Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal yesterday, Sunday.

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Published: 02 November 2014

Finance and BWML

IF, AS Allan Richards says, the old Finance Director, Philip Ridal is about to leave, it will he good riddance, writes Ian Gittins.

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Published: 01 November 2014

RCR staff's terrifying explosion experience

THE staff of the well respected River & Canal Rescue (RCR) had a very narrow escape as they were trapped in their building next door to the massive Stafford fireworks explosion that killed and injured its workers.

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Published: 01 November 2014

Brightening up the L&L

THINGS certainly look brighter at a bridge at Blackburn on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal—it's been wallpapered!

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Published: 31 October 2014

CaRT Finance Director to go

THE future of one of the Canal & River Trust's (CaRT) ‘Fat Cats' is in doubt following a decision to recruit a new Finance Director, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 31 October 2014

Stockwith Lock opens to the public

WEST Stockwith Lock that connects the Trent to the Chesterfield Canal is being opened to the public when it is drained for repair.

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Published: 31 October 2014

Newts stop Montgomery restoration

AS WITH the Ashby Canal before it, newts have stopped an important part of the restoration of the Montgomery Canal.

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Published: 30 October 2014

It can be done

I REMEMBER when John Telford, a member of the then British Waterways Enforcement team, mounted a campaign on the stretch of the Trent & Mersey Canal from Etruria to Willington, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 30 October 2014

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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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