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Staffordhire Police have started a brilliant new initiative on Facebook, a canal watch. Visit and contribute by surfing to http://www.facebook.com/StaffordshireCanalWatch. Perhaps by supporting this service we can encourage other police forces to take boat crime more seriously. I have suggested to the organisers of Staffordshire Canal Watch that they also start a Twitter page and have . . . → Read More: Staffordshire Police set up Canal Watch Anti-social behaviour | Canal & River Trust | Volunteering | Volunteers | Waterway Communities | Waterway News 14th Jul 2011 British Waterways (BW) has agreed a new partnership with the Staffordshire & West Midlands Probation Trust to pilot a project which will help improve areas on the West Midlands canal network. The partnership will see offenders sentenced to Community Payback working on a range of tasks to improve canals in Birmingham, Walsall, . . . → Read More: Offenders give back on West Midlands canals Anti-social behaviour | Canal & River Trust | Volunteering | Waterway Communities | Waterway News | Waterway Politics In an article “The Big Society Cruises up Yorkshire’s Canals’, Len Tingle, Political Editor in Yorkshire suggests that it might come as a surprise to some that one of the first chunks of “big government” being taken over by the Big Society will be our 200 year old canal network. As most waterways supporters know, . . . → Read More: The Big Society cruises up canals 28th Jan 2011 British Waterways and Craven District Council have joined forces to tackle the problem of dog fouling on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Skipton. Thanks to irresponsible dog owners, walkers along the canal towpath in Skipton often find themselves faced with a dog fouling obstacle course. In just a 50-metre stretch of . . . → Read More: BW & Skipton Council get tough on dog owners 19 November 2010 GARETH EDWARDS and VIC RODRICK of the Scotsman report: A “MAD” driver who crashed his car through ice after driving along a frozen canal has been slammed for putting the lives of firefighters at risk and could now face a huge bill. Police described the incident as “utter madness” at the time, . . . → Read More: Driver faces £16,000 bill over car on frozen canal stunt 5th Nov 2010 A tracking device on a British Waterways excavator has led to the recovery of thousands of pounds worth of stolen machinery. The excavator was taken from a compound in Syston, Leicester between Wednesday 29 September and Monday 4 October. Over the same period two other excavators belonging to another firm were also . . . → Read More: British Waterways’ tracker comes up trumps . The damaged River Lune viaduct. British Waterways are urging people to look out for distinctive balustrades stolen from an 18th Century landmark in Lancashire. Eight balustrade stones were stolen and 12 others removed from the historic Lune viaduct at Caton Road in Lancaster. The thieves took the ornamental stones from the bridge . . . → Read More: Thieves steal balustrade stones from River Lune viaduct |
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