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1940's at museum

TAKING a leaf out of Stoke Bruerne's wartime week-end, The National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port is also staging a 1940's themed weekend.

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Published: 10 October 2013

Works to be redeveloped

THE works of engineers Jones & Attwood by the side of the Stourbridge Canal is being offered to developers, who will demolish the buildings to erect housing.

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Published: 10 October 2013

Anglers save boater

IT WAS anglers who came to the rescue of a woman who had fallen from her boat near Days Lock on the Thames.

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Published: 10 October 2013

November work parties

HERE is the list of Inland Waterways Association work parties that have been arranged for November.

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Published: 10 October 2013

The dreaded seal is back

MUCH to the annoyance of anglers, the seal nicknamed Keith, is back devouring their fish stocks in the Severn.

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Published: 10 October 2013

It's alright for some

LIFE is full of coincidences! (Cue the ‘X-Files' theme music.) The end of August is the time that I sit down and sort out the business annual accounts plus review the major expenditures past, present and future, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 10 October 2013

Boaters find body

A COUPLE on a narrowboat had the shock of finding a body floating past their boat as they cruised the Rochdale Nine through Manchester.

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Published: 09 October 2013

Part of Leeds & Liverpool adopted

THE new University Technical College, Visions Learnings Trust in Burnley, have taken up an ‘adopt a canal' initiative by the Canal & River Trust earlier this year.

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Published: 09 October 2013

David: Banbury Canal Day

I WENT to Banbury Canal Day (by car) last Sunday, for the first time for several years.

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Published: 09 October 2013

Museum by torchlight

THE Gloucester Waterways Museum is staging a torchlight event where the characters of the canal working days are being brought to life.

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Published: 09 October 2013

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