WORK to replace the lower gates at Lock 18 at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir has now been completed by volunteers, ensuring that the navigable stretch of the Grantham Canal from the A1 to Woolsthorpe can be further extended by nearly a mile.
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IT APPEARS that the focus of Canal & River Trust (CaRT) currently, is a major review of the licensing, charging and managing of the thousand plus boating related businesses within its bailiwick, writes Orph Mable.
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AFTER two years trading Smokie Joe's bird cowls are being spotted more often on the waterways as a solution to back draught in wood burning stoves.
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THE campaign to make the Southern Oxford Canal a safer place for boating started in narrowboatworld (Neglected South Oxford) has been taken up by BBC News Oxford.
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AT THE moment our illustrious editor Thomas and colleague Jan are somewhat unhappy bunnies, being nearly a thousand quid poorer for something that was mostly left to be resorted.
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TONY Brooks makes a valid point about the gearbox paddle gear on the Kennet & Avon; it often does stick so that you cannot drop the paddles in an emergency.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) pulled out all the stops to repair the lock gate on Caen Hill Flight that closed the flight, after a hire boat lifted the gate out.
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THE man that police forces throughout the country want to speak to in regard to narrowboat burglaries (Search for narrowboat thief) has at last been apprehended.
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The ‘Hot Tug', launched during August by the Runnymede-on-Thames Hotel is certainly something different—a real hot tub for guests, that's floating on the Thames.
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I FOUND when I was on the Grand Union the best diesel and coal prices were always the coal/diesel boats, and there are plenty of them too, so there was never a long wait for one to pass by, writes Keith Gudgin.
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