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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

Lancaster Canal development

The Canal & River Trust, together with Bloc are undertaking waterside development by the Lancaster Canal in the city.

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Published: 30 October 2014

No one to clear debris

I must say, it was no surprise whatsoever that the Huddersfield Narrow Canal flooded through debris in a weir or whatever it was, writes Ian Gittins.

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Published: 30 October 2014

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