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THE Oil spill on the Regents Canal was quickly cleared, not being as bad as first thought when the canal was closed.

THE  closing of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal has resulted in an health warning as toxic algae takes over the stagnant waterway.

THE lovely Beale Park site turned out to be another great venue for IWA's National Festival & Boat Show (also commemorating the birth of our co-founder Tom Rolt), writes Inland Waterways Association's Gillian Bolt.

FOLLOWING governments' condemnation of public sector fat cats and its publication of a rich list of those earning over £150,000, IWA has published in its Bulletin a comparison between BW's executive directors and the third sector, writes Allan Richards.

MANY boaters are confused by the ongoing restrictions through Royal Vale Lock on the Weaver, which is a complete shambles.

THE completion of the Barge Canal  will see the first boat on the waterway in 80 years next Monday.

IT WAS announced today (Wednesday) by the  Government that its grants to British Waterways will be drastically reduced.

ANOTHER breach has once again closed the Mon & Brec Canal, with the waterway planked-off.

WE HAVE had the 'Third Way' and the 'Waterway Trust', but now 'Civil Society' is the latest buzz word for the re-branding of the waterways!

A CREW of seven boaters ended up well and truly stuck  in their narrowboat on the Trent as they missed the entrance to the Trent & Mersey Canal at Derwent Mouth.

THIEVES swooped on the moorings by the Ash Tree pub at Rugeley on the Trent & Mersey Canal in the middle of the night breaking into 12 boats.