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CRT launches new Impact Report
In an effort to point out the value of inland waterways to the UK economy, the Canal & River Trust has issued its latest Impact Report for 2025.
The feel-good 80-page report tries to show how the waterways address biodiversity, improve public health and help to mitigate climate change. There are regular mentions of boats and boaters, but they are not central to the document, simply part of the waterways landscape.
Adopting the government’s claim of the UK being ‘one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world’, and with…
16 January 2025
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Memories of the 1971 Bridgewater breach and repair
The latest Bridgewater breach is a near-copy of the the one in 1971, which closed the canal for nearly two years. Ian McCarthy, a witness of…
15 January 2025
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Fund Britain’s Waterways cruise begins
The Fund Britain’s Waterways umbrella organisation begins a national campaign cruise at the end of March, planned to culminate in an assembly outside parliament in…
15 January 2025
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Stover Canal breach
The Stover Canal restoration in Devon must sadly be added to the list of severely damaged canals at the end of 2024.
This short but…
15 January 2025
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Wilts & Berks restoration gains, despite Swindon threat
The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust (WBCT) has expressed worries about an application that might scotch long-term plans for the restoration to run through the…
14 January 2025
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First cargo for new 500-tonne barge on NE waterways
Casper River & Canal Transport, a new company formed in 2024 for inland shipping on NE waterways, moved its first official cargo on 9th January.…
13 January 2025
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Marina plans to go net-zero with solar farm
Aston Marina, on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stone, has gained planning approval for a new solar farm that could make it ‘net zero’. …
13 January 2025
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Twin trip-boats reunited
Two restaurant/trip-boats that operated successively on the Peak Forest Canal from the 1980s have been reunited to work together on the Staffs & Worcs Canal.…
12 January 2025
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IWA replies to Somerset waterways strategy
The IWA West Country branch has come out generally supportive of a consultation issued recently by Somerset County Council which proposes significant changes to Taunton's…
09 January 2025
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New plaque for Market Harborough 75th anniversary
Plans are now well advanced for a boat rally to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Inland Waterways Association's Market Harborough Festival of Boats, due…
09 January 2025
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Surfbee tests water quality automatically
A new autonomous miniature drone boat that tests for pollution is now monitoring water quality in UK waterways.
The Surfbee can patrol canals and rivers…
09 January 2025
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