Yes Minister - BW’s Olympic effort!
Hilary Benn MP visits Prescott Lock; the key connection to the Olympic development site.
THE Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, recently visited the East London Prescott Lock construction site to view the first of two, 21-tonne ‘fishbelly’ sluice gates being installed by contractor Volker Stevin as part of the £20-million British Waterways-led project. The work is a major milestone towards the completion of the structure later in the year.
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SAVE OUR WATERWAYS - the way forward
SOW is the acronym of Save Our Waterways, a campaign dedicated to securing the long term future of our inland waterways.
We started as an informal campaign group, and during the process of catalysing dozens of protest events and gathering over 40,000 signatures on our petition, we realised that most users of the waterway are unrepresented.
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WIN a Nokia 1200 mobile phone kit worth £89
TOWPATH Talk has teamed up with Mere Mobiles to offer readers a Nokia 1200 mobile phone complete with signal boosting kit, adaptor and antenna.
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Major Marina Ahead
WORK on the UK’s, and perhaps Europe’s, largest inland marina continues apace. Earthworks to convert the existing Willington Lake into a 585-berth marina are nearing completion with three quarters of the 29 pontoons in place and two of the three Amenities Blocks built.
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Facelift for Paddington
A £500,000 facelift looks set to breathe new life into the canalside of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal.
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Keeping Keynes clean
THIRTY volunteers turned out to support IWA Milton Keynes’ spring clean-up this year. The weekend trip, sponsored by Wyvern Shipping, started at Fenny Stratford and headed south to Grove lock near Leighton Buzzard.
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