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RESTORATION OF HISTORIC CHESHIRE CANAL FOOTBRIDGE WINS ENGINEERING AWARD
The Canal & River Trust waterways and wellbeing charity has won a major engineering award for its sympathetic restoration of a historic Grade II Listed
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Who left the lock open?
WHILE walking along a section of the Kennet & Avon Canal to Devizes recently, Towpath Talk contributor Kevin Thomas came upon Lock 25 standing wide
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Let there be light! Towpath walking routes now lit…
Waterways and wellbeing charity, Canal & River Trust, working in partnership with the City of Wolverhampton Council, has installed solar-powered lights along the canals in
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Bloomin’ good award..
Volunteers from charity, Canal & River Trust, have again won Gold in the Rugby in Bloom award for their efforts in helping to care for
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CANAL & RIVER TRUST PUBLISHES BOATER REPORT 2021
The Canal & River Trust has published its Boater Report 2021 for the more than 35,000 leisure licence holders who use its waterways. The Report
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BOAT LICENCE FEES FOR 2022-23
The Canal & River Trust is today announcing that headline private and business boat licence fees will rise by 4% from 1 April 2022. Income
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Canal & River Trust publishes its 2020/21 Annual Report
Canal & River Trust has today (28 October) published its 2020/21 Annual Report & Accounts which document a year dominated by Covid-19, from the pandemic’s
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More details emerge on plans for Welsh canals
Glandŵr Cymru, the Canal & River Trust in Wales, is celebrating after the Montgomery Canal and Llangollen Canal secured over £20 million in funding from
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CANAL & RIVER TRUST TO RECEIVE OVER £1.4M FOR MAJOR WORKS FROM GOVERNMENT’S HERITAGE STIMULUS FUND
The Canal & River Trust, the national waterways and wellbeing charity, has been awarded over £1.4 million in funding for seven major heritage projects across
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RESTORING TODDBROOK RESERVOIR – CANAL CHARITY SUBMITS PLANNING APPLICATION FOR MAJOR REPAIR
The restoration of Toddbrook Reservoir in Whaley Bridge takes a major step forward this month with submission of a planning application for its permanent repair
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Boom in boating as restrictions lift
The Canal & River Trust is seeing boats returning to the water in fleets as restrictions lift and the sun shines. With school holidays starting, it could be a record-breaking summer for boating.
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Vandalism on the Ashby Canal
Sometime over Saturday 11 July, a picnic table and Ashby Canal Association information sign by Bridge 37 on the Ashby Canal at Far Coton, near Market Bosworth was destroyed by an obviously disturbed individual.
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Canal charity awarded England’s 1st Blue Flag Marina Award in Liverpool
The Canal & River Trust, has been awarded England’s first ever international Blue Flag award for the Royal Albert Dock and Salthouse Dock marinas in Liverpool.
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