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HELP COMPILE a national picture of waterways heritage

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April 21, 2025

IWA’s Amy Tillson reports… IWA’s Heritage Advisory Panel aims to safeguard and publicise the extraordinary national heritage asset that our waterways network represents. To aid public and governmental awareness of this, the group is compiling a ‘risk list’ of significant waterways heritage items that are endangered for whatever reason – for instance neglect, dereliction, insensitive…
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PUBLIC ASKED to share memories of West Midlands canals

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April 19, 2025

A PLEA has gone out for the public to share their memories and experiences of West Midlands canals to keep the history alive. The Canal & River Trust is launching a new heritage project, funded by the National Lottery, in the West Midlands and is calling on people to help make it happen. The trust…
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WIN A PLACE ON AN RCR MAINTENANCE COURSE

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April 18, 2025

TO CELEBRATE River Canal Rescue’s 25th anniversary, managing director, Stephanie Horton, is giving away prizes every month, throughout the year. In May, Towpath Talk readers can win a place on one of RCR’s boat and engine maintenance courses worth £315. The two-day course covers how to maintain diesel engines and the systems within a narrowboat,…
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SCHOOL STUDENTS tackle climate change and flooding head on

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April 17, 2025

Students from two East Midlands schools tackled climate change and the dramatic affect it can have on waterways head on during a recent journalism workshop at the University of Lincoln. The group, from Cleethorpes Academy and John Spendluffe Technology College, created a story package on flooding which included a video, podcast, digital story and social…
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May 2025

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April 17, 2025

Towpath Talk features everything you need to know about boats, marinas, wildlife, conservation, heritage and superb days out.
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LOUTH CANAL: Vegetation cut back

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April 16, 2025

Lucy Wood investigates… THE Environment Agency has been clearing overgrown vegetation along Louth Canal, in Lincolnshire, to mitigate flood risk. Teams have also been coppicing willows and cutting grass throughout February and March in advance of the bird nesting season. As previously reported in Towpath Talk, advisory signs were erected along the path of the…
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CRICK WATERSIDE & Marina launches residential moorings

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April 15, 2025

Crick – the home of the famous Crick Boat Show – is Aquavista’s latest marina to announce the launch of official residential moorings.Crick Waterside & Marina located on the Leicester section of the Grand Union canal is a spacious marina with two basins offering 270 moorings for narrowboats and cruisers of all lengths. Aquavista’s residential…
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BUCKET LIST TRIP: UK’s longest, deepest, highest canal tunnel

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April 12, 2025

INTREPID explorers will be able to tick off a bucket list trip through the UK’s longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel this spring. Visitors can either canoe or relax and be chauffeured through the 3.5-mile Standedge Tunnel, which runs under the Pennines between Marsden, near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, and Diggle in Lancashire. The experience…
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SUPERBUGS spread from swans?

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April 11, 2025

A STUDY by university scientists has shown that swans living in urban waterways could host deadly bacteria that could be harmful to humans. The study by the University of Galway revealed swans in Dublin and Co Kildare frequently carry antimicrobial resistant bacteria in their guts similar to those that cause difficult-to-treat infections in humans. The…
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ON TOUR: The River Project

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April 10, 2025

Lucy Wood reports… FALLING Stars Theatre has created an immersive, interactive theatre performance for primary school-aged children based on the banks of the River Aire. Supported by The Aire Rivers Trust, The Wild Trout Trust and the Salmon and Trout Conservation, The River Project imagines a host of memorable characters on the banks of the…
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FLOATING MUSUEM gets TV spot

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April 9, 2025

The restoration of a 1923-built keel into a piece of living history has been featured on primetime TV. THE Humber Keel and Sloop Preservation Society’s (HKSPS) ongoing work on Comrade was featured on the March 2 episode of the BBC’s flagship Sunday teatime programme Countryfile. The episode focused on the Humber Estuary, and how nature…
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HARNESSING the power of our rivers

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April 8, 2025

Sports personality and presenter Clare Balding is fronting a new series about Britain’s most iconic rivers. FROM the wildlife that call it home, the folk who live and work on riverbanks, to the many day trippers and pleasure seekers who visit, Tales From The Riverbank is showcasing the sights and sounds of the country’s rivers…
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CELEBRATING River Welland

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April 7, 2025

Lucy Wood reports ARTISTS, volunteers and the community came together to create beautiful willow sculptures, nature-inspired waymarkers and a community banner inspired by the riverside heritage of a market town. Over a three-year period Spalding, in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, was revitalised with a creative and artistic show of strength. Twisting eels and…
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BOAT VANDALISM: Worst case ever seen

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April 4, 2025

A NARROWBOAT that was broken into, vandalised and scuppered – blocking boats cruising the Hawkesbury junction area of the Coventry canal – was the worst case of wanton destruction River Canal Rescue’s teams had ever seen. The distraught owner visited narrowboat Rosie the week before it was vandalised, and on the weekend of February 15/16…
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