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Aylesbury Lock overdue and over budget

THE repairs to the collapsed Buckland Lock on the Aylesbury Arm is not only overdue, but we have discovered a colossal £500,000 over budget!

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Published: 04 November 2013

The 'dream' and the marginalised

READING Canal & River Trust's (CaRT) latest submission (Witness statement) to the court in relation to a Judicial Review my first thought was ‘you couldn't make it up', writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 04 November 2013

Victor: Don't shoot the the messenger

OR PERHAPS the heading should be 'Carrying the can', referring to Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Trustee John Dodwell's efforts to portray that all in the garden is lovely.

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Published: 02 November 2013

Co-operative's hydro electric scheme

A LOCAL cooperative in Abingdon has been granted permission to install a hydro electric plant in the Abbey Stream as it flows into the Thames.

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Published: 02 November 2013

Left on the mud

THE boaters who moored above Grove Lock (28) on the Grand Union Canal at Leighton Buzzard found themselves rolling out of their beds, as the pound emptied during Wednesday night.
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Published: 01 November 2013

New minister

THE new waterways minister appointed to replace Richard Benyon MP is Dan Rogerson MP, Lib Dem Member for North Cornwall.

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Published: 01 November 2013

Narrowboat burglar jailed

THE man who left a trail of narrowboat thefts behind him from boats on many waterways has been caught and sentenced to four and a a half years in prison.

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Published: 31 October 2013

£1m Lapworth project decimated

IT WAS just about a year ago that Canal & River Trust's (CaRT) Trustee John Dodwell was telling us how great it was to be a charity and that certainty of funding meant that £1m would be spent on 20 locks on the Lapworth Flight in 2013/14.

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Published: 31 October 2013

Disused locks to be unearthed

A SCHEME is in progress to unearth the old lock flight in Falkirk that were superseded by the Falkirk Wheel.
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Published: 31 October 2013

Objections to canal-side development

USING the slogan that a new massive development in Banbury will 'make the Oxford Canal an attractive destination', developers want to convince the locals it is a good thing.

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Published: 31 October 2013

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