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Preston tram bridge to be replaced using levelling-up funding

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March 22, 2023

A HISTORIC bridge in Lancashire will be replaced after a successful campaign to secure money from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund. Community pressure group Friends of Tram Bridge campaigned for replacing the bridge and persuaded Preston City Council to include the project in its levelling-up funding bid last year. IWA member Nigel Hardacre, from the…
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Learn how to grow your own food with help from Kitchen Garden magazine

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Arianne Davey

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March 21, 2023

Download your free taster of the award-winning Kitchen Garden magazine to help you grow and cook your own delicious produce.
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Canal & River Trust to complete the installation of pumps at Gloucester Docks to help keep the taps running in Bristol

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March 21, 2023

The Canal & River Trust is installing two new three-tonne pumps at Gloucester Docks that will take water from the River Severn and supply it, via the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, to the people of Bristol. Capable of pumping enough water to fill an Olympic size swimming pool every 21 minutes, the installation of the…
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Hazlehurst Bridge works on track for summer completion

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March 21, 2023

WORKS by Canal & River Trust to rebuild the historic Grade II Listed Hazlehurst Bridge are underway on the mainline of the Caldon Canal near Endon in Staffordshire. The canal has been temporarily closed to through navigation from the junction with the Leek Branch (Hazlehurst Junction), running southeast to Cheddleton Lock. Still, it is due…
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Community boating charity gears up for new season and future with new volunteer opportunities!

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March 20, 2023

A canal boating charity on the Northamptonshire and Warwickshire county border is looking ahead to this year’s new boating season and securing its long-term future by calling out for new volunteers to join them. LNBP Community Boating, a non-profit charity who provide residential trips from moorings at the historic canal side village of Braunston in…
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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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Canal & River Trust repairs storm-damaged Woodside Mills lock landing and towpath in Elland

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March 17, 2023

Repairs to the Calder & Hebble Navigation in the heart of the West Yorkshire’s Calder Valley have taken a significant step forward this spring, three years after Storm Ciara caused significant flood damage in the region to its historic waterways. The Canal & River Trust charity, which looks after 2,000 miles of canals and rivers…
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TV boater picks winning Wendover canal photos

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March 16, 2023

THE three winners of the Wendover Canal Trust’s photography competition have been picked by TV personality, vlogger and trust patron Robbie Cumming. The competition was launched to entice people to the canal during the autumn and winter. Entrants were invited to submit pictures capturing different scenes, whether of wildlife, the landscapes or people using the…
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Characters of the Cut: Home Yoga with May!

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March 15, 2023

Alice Griffin reports… Tiny Home Yoga with May – on top of the world! WHEN Meagan Anne Mansfield – known as May – found herself going stir-crazy in the stillness of everyday life after a period of exploring the globe, she decided there was no choice but to seek out a similar sense of freedom…
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New chapter in life of working boat

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March 14, 2023

A former coal barge is taking it easy in retirement. Sally Clifford finds out more…. FLANKED by high-rise apartments in a trendy waterside setting, you could say Marjorie R has got it made. The once grimy and industrial cityscape through which she previously sailed, transporting 75 tonnes of coal each journey between Fall Ings, Wakefield…
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Busy opening session at new compound

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March 13, 2023

ANOTHER spectacularly productive work party saw Shropshire Union Canal Society volunteers able to settle into and enjoy their new compound south of Crickheath Bridge on the Montgomery Canal. A wide variety of preparatory tasks were completed ready for machine plant operations to start. Thanks to favourable weather conditions, vegetation clearance continued apace in the dry…
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Canal improvements in Braunston following generous legacy

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March 11, 2023

The Canal & River Trust has started a series of improvements to the canal through Braunston, putting to good use a generous legacy of around £165,000 from the late waterways supporter and local resident Peter Andrews. While it was not a specified condition in the will, the indication was that it was Mr Andrews’ wish…
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Volunteers Give Canal Charity Helping Hand to Spring Clean UK’s Deepest Lock

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Mark Lancaster

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March 10, 2023

Canal & River Trust volunteers have given the UK’s deepest single lock a special spring clean, as the charity prepares its historic waterways for a busy year of boating. Maureen Readle was among the volunteers getting stuck in to help to clear tonnes of leaves from the bottom of the partially drained 20ft-deep lock chamber…
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Waterways vital to Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan

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March 9, 2023

BOTH the Canal & River Trust and Inland Waterways Association have welcomed the Government’s recent announcement about its Environmental Improvement Plan 2023. The waterways network has been described as ‘ready-made to provide a vital role’ in meeting the target of having everyone living within 15 minutes’ walk of a blue or green space. Both organisations…
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