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Tiny terrapins upset wildlife people

TINY terrapins found in the Regents Canal are upsetting wildlife people, as it is realised that the are breeding, and when grown could decimate fish and frogs living in the waterway and eat duckings.

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Published: 02 October 2013

Divers down!

TODAY I had a nice enjoyable walk with the dogs in the warm sunshine along the Tinsley Canal. It proved to be a walk full of surprises, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 02 October 2013

Association of Continuous Cruisers launched

THE Association of Continuous Cruisers (ACC) officially launched at The Birmingham Floating Market last week-end, with the website going live at 6pm and 63 boaters having contacted the association to express interest in joining by midnight.

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Published: 02 October 2013

London Duck tours suspended

AFTER one of its amphibious vessels caught fire on the Thames, (Two boat fires) London Duck Tours has had its craft suspended from operation on water.

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Published: 30 September 2013

Canal college for job seekers

CANAL College is a scheme to tackle youth unemployment in Falkirk and Edinburgh, which is open to young people between 16 and 25 years of age who haven't been able to secure a job or place in further education.

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Published: 30 September 2013

Successful Floating Market

THE hard work put in by all the people concerned in staging the Floating Market in Birmingham certainly paid off, with a very successful event indeed.

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Published: 30 September 2013

Another Thames bridge

ANOTHER Thames bridge is planned for Reading, that will connect the railway station with Christchurch Meadows.
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Published: 30 September 2013

Meeting the boaters

THE new Chief Executive of Canal & River Trust, Richard Parry, is certainly hearing for himself the concerns of boaters, not only taking trips with them, but visiting boaters at their marinas, the latest being Tinsley on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation.

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Published: 30 September 2013

Two boat fires

THERE were two boat this week-end on the Thames and the Ouse, with the Thames fire rather worrying as it was one of the ill-fated Yellow Ducks that had sunk in a Liverpool dock.

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Published: 29 September 2013

Stranded on tidal waters

THE engine of a 50ft narrowboat failing on the tidal river left it stranded and drifting whilst the two woman crew attempted to restart the engine.

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Published: 28 September 2013

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