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Robin Evans stated: "Some 98% of the people in this country consider the canals and waterways in this country to be a treasured asset."
 

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Huddersfield Narrow closed
Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:01

THE Huddersfield Narrow Canal is still closed, with boaters stranded after a lock gate failed on Thursday.

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Victor: My sympathy is with BW
Sunday, 20 May 2012 08:17

I HAVE often been in trouble putting the blame where it lies with people coming to grief in the waterways, and my objecting to the resulting knee-jerk reactions.

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Freebies to stem advertising slump
Saturday, 19 May 2012 10:44

WITH waterway magazine sales continuing to plummet, coupled with the demise of advertisers one is now publishing a free edition, in an attempt to attract more advertising.

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Cotswolds funding blow
Friday, 18 May 2012 11:29

FUNDING for the restoration of the four miles of canal between Stonehouse and Saul Junction is not forthcoming, with the  Heritage Lottery Fund application being rejected.

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Bollards scenario again
Friday, 18 May 2012 10:07

So, although categorically promised by British Waterways that it would never be allowed to re-occur, the British Waterways bollards scenario rears it's ugly head yet again following the knee jerk reaction of H&S, writes Graham Phillips.

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Olympic trip rip-off
Friday, 18 May 2012 07:06

EVEN the local MP has complained about the high fares on the trip boat taking passengers between Limehouse to the Olympic Park during the games.

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Leaking stove caused death
Thursday, 17 May 2012 08:32

THE death of a boater at Salterforth Wharf on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was caused by carbon monoxide fumes an inquest has heard.

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'Guillotine' RSJ to be removed
Thursday, 17 May 2012 05:16

SUCH was the furore caused by the narrowboatworld warnings of the dangers of the RSJ  installed at neck height on Falling Sands Lock that it is to be removed.

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Safety of boat crews
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:17

BRITISH Waterways has been the guardian of our canal heritage for the past 60 years. Latterly it has insisted that it has the responsibility to keep structures as close as possible to the state in which they were first built, writes Mike Stone.

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Robin exceeds himself
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 11:48

BRITISH Waterways Chief Executive, Robin Evans, has given some more surprising statistics, this time to the Inquiry in the House of Lords on the transfer orders to take British Waterways into a charity.

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BW pays £500,000 compensation
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:12

BRITISH Waterways has accepted partial liability for an accident that left a girl with both legs crushed, and will pay £500,000 towards compensation and costs, writes Allan Richards.

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Decapitation guaranteed
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:00

ROD Fox's picture of the new 'safety' rails at Falling Sands Lock only tells part of the story, writes David Hymers.

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