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TEN years ago today, the 8th March 2000, a new Web address was registered that has had quite an effect on the waterways over the intervening years.

AFTER a string of attacks on the Regent's Canal towpath a warning was issued for people to keep off the towpath after dark, but this has been ignored, with two more  attacks reported.

IT SEEMS our masters are pulling out all the stops to increase the ever failing number of visitors to their waterways.

AS HAS  been recently reported, the water level is being lowered on a section of the Basingstoke canal between Chequers Bridge and Double Bridge in Hampshire.

SNOW and ice played a large part in the photographs submitted for our Autumn and Winter Photographic Competition, with such a scene the winner.

RECENT reports of boaters having to be rescued from swollen rivers because they ignored flood warnings make me angry, writes Tony Haynes.

PETROL generators and the like have caused nine boat fires in 2009, the Boat Safety Scheme reveals. A dramatic increase from just one the year previously.

BRITISH WATERWAYS, in a move to reassure boaters, event organisers and waterside businesses, have outlined plans to manage water levels on the Birmingham Canal Navigations over the  period of the Chasewater Reservoir  works.