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CHESHIRE LOCK: Open again after £10k repair

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November 12, 2024

HUNTS Lock on the Weaver Navigation in Cheshire is now open to boaters after a complex repair operation by the Canal & River Trust. The work means the link between the 250-year-old waterway and the Trent and Mersey Canal, via the Anderton Boat Lift, is now working again. The trust had to bring in cranes,…
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MISSING OUT: That’s boaters on vital public services

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September 30, 2024

Tim Greenfield reports… HUNDREDS of boaters are missing out on access to vital services such as healthcare, education and banks. Waterway users say many central and local government agencies just aren’t able to deal with people who don’t have a permanent address – leaving many falling through the cracks and suffering in the process. Boaters…
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‘INHUMANE’ RULES: NBTA want rethink

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August 22, 2024

The National Bargee Travellers’ Association, which represents thousands of itinerant UK boat dwellers, calls for end to the Canal and River Trust’s current enforcement policy. THE trust which manages most of the UK’s inland waterways has published the full results of its Boater Census first conducted in 2022, which highlights the issues and challenges faced…
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Black Sluice Lock marks 15 years in service

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May 22, 2024

THE Black Sluice Lock in Lincolnshire has now been in service for 15 years since its official opening on Friday, March 20, 2009. Following the demolition of the old lock and the fixed sluice, a new lock was constructed on the River Witham tideway at the south end of the Black Sluice complex, marking the…
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Boaters march on CRT office in licence fee protest

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May 15, 2024

HUNDREDS of boaters took to the towpath of Paddington Basin in London to demonstrate against the Canal & River Trust’s licence fee increases. They were also protesting at plans to introduce differential pricing based on mooring status. Activists from the boater community were joined on Easter Saturday by members of other groups in solidarity, including…
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Business body backs campaign for waterways funding

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May 9, 2024

BRITISH Marine recently joined other members of Fund Britain’s Waterways for a meeting with the Canal & River Trust chief executive Richard Parry and his senior team at Hatton Locks. The trade association, whose members come from a broad range of boating businesses, is one of 120 organisations backing the FBW campaign to protect all…
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‘Rescue’ of fish from Brent Reservoir ahead of winter maintenance works

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December 21, 2023

When: 10 am to midday, Friday 22 December 2023 Where:Brent Reservoir, Welsh Harp Sailing Club entrance, Birchen Grove, London NW9 8SA What: What could be the Canal & River Trust’s biggest ever fish rescue has begun ahead of the full draining of Brent Reservoir (also known as the Welsh Harp) for statutory winter maintenance works. Canal…
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Nominations invited to join Canal & River Trust’s Council of Members

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October 28, 2023

The Canal & River Trust charity is inviting people to put themselves forward for election to sit on its Council. Those elected will serve a term of four years on the Council, which is responsible for the appointment of the charity’s trustees, provides guidance and perspective from different stakeholders, and acts as a sounding board…
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Latest Stoppage on the Leeds & Liverpool

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Colin Wareing

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July 18, 2023

A leak had been detected either from damage to a culvert that carries a field drainage ditch under the canal or the canal wash wall with the canal flowing into an adjacent farm field. Attempts were made to stop the water flowing through the wash wall with a plastic fibre sheet, but this didn’t stem…
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Locking Ahead – the future of maintenance planning

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Mark Lancaster

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June 28, 2023

In the third article about how the Canal & River Trust maintains its 200-year-old system, national boating manager Matthew Symonds looks at some of the challenges that lay ahead. THE canal network is one of the nation’s greatest regeneration stories. From losing many hundreds of miles of waterways in the last century as canals stopped…
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Navigation at Crofton: re-opened!

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April 3, 2023

The Kennet & Avon Canal has re-opened to navigation at Crofton, following five months of closure to allow the Canal & River Trust to replace the canal’s pumping system at Crofton. A section of the towpath at Crofton will remain closed until July 2023. The pumping system at Crofton, near Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, keeps…
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Angel Canal Festival postponed for 2023

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March 18, 2023

The Canal & River Trust has informed Islington Council and other stakeholders on the Regent’s Canal that Angel Canal Festival will not take place in 2023, but that it hopes for the event to return in 2024 with an event sponsor that can help fund the community-led canal celebration. The cost of maintaining the ageing…
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Swarkestone towpath reopens after first phase

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January 30, 2023

A SECTION of historic canal towpath in Swarkestone has reopened after the Canal & River Trust completed the first phase of improvements. These will make it easier for people to access the canal and to link the canal path to other connecting trails. Working in partnership with Sustrans, CRT has improved 2.5km of the Trent…
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Dead Dog bridge: £500k repairs underway

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January 20, 2023

The Canal & River Trust has this week started a £533,000 ten-week project to repair the Grade II Listed Interchange Basin Towpath Bridge on the Regent’s Canal in Camden. Built in 1846, the historic bridge known locally as ‘Dead Dog bridge’, is an important local landmark carrying the Regent’s Canal towpath across the canal basin…
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