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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THINGS certainly look brighter at a bridge at Blackburn on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal—it's been wallpapered!
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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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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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AS WITH the Ashby Canal before it, newts have stopped an important part of the restoration of the Montgomery Canal.
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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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The Canal & River Trust, together with Bloc are undertaking waterside development by the Lancaster Canal in the city.
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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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THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) Trustees are ignoring a petition calling on it to withdraw the current ‘Mooring Sales Consultation' and reissue it only when it includes an option to measure support for scrapping the policy of allocating vacant moorings to the highest bidder, writes Allan Richards.
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IT SEEMS that lack of regular maintenance has caused severe flooding on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, with the canal unnavigable and towpaths covered in water.
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