Friday 20 June

Today's news from the web

Marina to be built at old colliery site wigantoday.net

A 40-berth marina will be built on the site of Bickershaw Colliery near Wigan....

Flasher on the Oxford Canal rugbytoday.co.uk

A woman claims that this was the third time in six years that she had been flashed at while walking along the Oxford Canal towpath. ...

Rochdale canalside to be redeveloped in Manchester crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk

A major overhaul of the canalside Central Retail Park on Great Ancoats Street and “exciting proposals” for SportsCity form part of New East Manchester’s 10-year regeneration strategy. ...
Chesterfield Canal to host IWA 2009 Campaign Festival waterscape.com

The Inland Waterways Association’s National Campaign Festival for 2009 is to be held at Kiveton Park, near Rotherham, on the summit level of the Chesterfield Canal. ...
Rochdale back-pump plans rejected halifaxcourier.co.uk

Plans to install pumping equipment on the Rochdale Canal have been rejected. ...
Leeds canalside site to be redeveloped yorkshirepost.co.uk

Leeds City Council granted outline planning permission for the £230m project, which includes homes, offices, restaurants and community facilities, such as healthcare, childcare and retail stores. ...
TV programme 'Life on Mars' filmed by Rochdale Canal manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Series one location manager Brett Wilson says: "We filmed lots of different scenes at the Rochdale Canal at Ancoats. The opening sequence when Sam comes round in 1973 and is found by a policeman at the car crash site was shot on some waste ground. ...

Wappenshall warehouse saved? shropshirestar.com

Telford & Wrekin Council is remaining tight-lipped about the exact size of the funding but it is believed to be a six-figure sum. It will be used to buy the stretch of the canal, warehouse buildings and the basin at Wappenshall, near Newport. ...
Hopes dashed for boat restoration thisislincolnshire.co.uk

Restorers who want to put the Mary Gordon - one of Lincoln's oldest boats - back into use have had their funding hopes dashed. ...
Canal restaurant to pull in visitors expressandstar.com

New plans have been submitted for a restaurant with an al-fresco dining area at Stourport basins as part of a plan to attract extra visitors to the area. ...
Peel director to swim Manchester Ship Canal crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk

James Whittaker, development director at Peel Holdings - the company that owns the Manchester Ship Canal - will swim 36 miles of the canal on September 5 and 6 to launch the company’s £50bn Ocean Gateway scheme. ...

Tunnellers explore subterranean canal manchesterconfidential.co.uk

The tunnel contains the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal (MSJC) and is accessible for several hundred yards....
MBE for Wey & Arun Canal volunteer waterscape.com

Eric Walker has been appointed an MBE for 'Voluntary Services to the Wey & Arun Canal'. ...
Stobart plans ship canal service crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk

In an interview with The Times, Andrew Tinkler, Stobart Group’s chief executive, said the company had planning go-ahead to develop the site and believed it could launch a viable inshore freight-shipping business. ...
Showcasing canal history buckinghamtoday.co.uk

Hundreds of visitors took a look back at the history of the canals last weekend during the Stoke Bruerne Canal Festival. ...

Cruise missile - plank falls on boater in lock halifaxcourier.co.uk

A BIRTHDAY party on the canal ended in agony for Peter Hamby. ...

Volunteers during an early 1970s workparty on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal beginning to realise 'the impossible dream'.

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Canoeing project launched on Montgomery Canal waterscape.com

A pioneering project aimed at increasing canoeing activity on the Montgomery Canal has received a timely boost with the acquisition of a specialist transport trailer by the Friends of Montgomery Canal. ...

Horsepower Back On Canals halesowennews.co.uk

An event organised to celebrate 150 years of canal engineering, saw the return of horse drawn narrowboats to Brierley Hill's Delph Locks. ...
Go-ahead for £250m bonanza of Liverpool city projects liverpooldailypost.co.uk

Stanley DOCK will see renovation work start at the beginning of 2009, the owner’s agents said last night. Liverpool planning committee yesterday granted permission for the site to be transformed into more than 900 apartments, offices and leisure facilities. ...

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