BCN Explorer cruises to welcome hire-boaters
The BCN Society each year organises a fortnight of ‘Explorer Cruises’ for boaters to cruise in convoy around the Birmingham canals. The society says that…
11 June 2024
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Crossroads for Leicester River Festival?
This year’s Leicester Riverside Festival, on 1st-2nd June, saw almost no narrowboat element, and the IWA Leicestershire Branch is calling for a return to the…
11 June 2024
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Plea for help with boater facilities
The Canal & River Trust is appealing for private marinas (and other ‘business partners’) to help it fill gaps in service facilities for travelling boaters.…
11 June 2024
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CRT and FBW set out election stalls
In the run-up to the general election, both the Canal & River Trust and the IWA-led Fund Britain's Waterways campaign put out calls, ahead of…
11 June 2024
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Crick continues to be biggest and best inland boat show
This year's Crick Boat Show recorded its best single day attendance since before the Covid pandemic. The crowds thronged the showground on Saturday and although…
31 May 2024
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Woman whose boat was stolen watched as police refused to arrest the men found with it
A liveaboard boater who tracked down her stolen boat has spoken at her outrage after the police refused to arrest men found stripping it and…
30 May 2024
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Generous legacy spent on another bridge
A generous legacy from a local resident is being used in restoring the historic Horseley Iron Bridge at the entrance to Braunston Marina.
Volunteers have…
17 May 2024
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Hatherton Canal gets first new lock gates in nearly 40 years.
Canal contractors the Rothen Group were recently called in to help restore a tiny part of the old Hatherton Canal.
The canal was abandoned in…
17 May 2024
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Race to build a new lock gate
The south Stratford Canal had a crisis closure at the end of April, when the bottom gate of Lock 28, near Lowsonford, failed.
Upon inspection,…
16 May 2024
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North Oxford landslip cleared
The Canal & River Trust reopened the north Oxford Canal near Brinklow to navigation on 18th May, three months after a massive landslip at Easenhall…
16 May 2024
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Anderton’s sold-out ‘Steam at the Lift’
The hottest weekend of the year so far had record numbers of people flocking to the Anderton Boat Lift for the third annual ‘Steam at…
15 May 2024
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