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BRITISH Waterways are advertising for a person to take charge of the redundancies to its staff.

THE Inland Waterways Association Festival will no longer be held on its traditional August Bank Holiday weekend it has been revealed.

THE Welsh Waterways Festival, held in Newport resulted in a cheque for £250 being handed to the  Monmouthshire, Brecon & Abergavenny Canals Trust.

THE public inquiry concerning the legality of liveaboards on the Driffield Canal has started.

A TEENAGER has jumped from the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal and plunged to her death.

FIGURES published in British Waterway Marinas Limited (BWML) annual report indicate that mooring occupancy has fallen, over the last two years, from 90% to 81%. In other words one BWML berth in five lies empty, double the number two years ago. writes Allan Richards.

NOT the whole of it!—just 100 special pieces of tunnel rock, to encourage visitors to the Huddersfield Narrow Canal attraction.

A LIMITED edition of prints of the painting Last Traffic on the Trent & Mersey by Dusty Miller are being offered to raise funds for a heritage boat restoration.

A BANKSIDE wall has collapsed onto the towpath of the Huddersfield Broad Canal.

HERE'S an invitation to join a walk along the canal towpaths  from Ellesmere Port to Birmingham to raise funds for Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

TWO boaters managed to escape their narrowboat yesterday when it started to sink in the Severn

PLANNING permission has been granted to the Wey & Arun Canal Trust for rebuilding of Southland Lock.

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

A 'SIGNIFICANT' oil spill from the National Grid by Maida Hill Tunnel has closed the Regents Canal.

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.