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All quiet on the waterways

MANY contributors and ourselves have noticed the lack of boat movements on the waterways compared to recent years, except for the 'flurry' over the school holidays, with Martin Howes confirming:

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Published: 19 September 2012

Erewash closed

POLLUTION leaking into the Erewash Canal has closed a section until it can be cleared.

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Published: 19 September 2012

Vegetation 'control' and continuous cruisers

WE have just returned from 14 weeks out on our boat. I make the following comments about vegetation ‘control' and continuous cruisers, writes Bob Hallam.

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Published: 19 September 2012

Fright Night at museum

SUCH was the success of the Fright Nights at the Halloween events at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port, that there is to be another this year.

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Published: 19 September 2012

65 miles charity walk

BOATS, bishops and bridges all had a part to play during a 65 miles walk from Blackburn Cathedral to Chester Cathedral by a team from Chester and Blackburn-based Adoption Matters Northwest.

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Published: 19 September 2012

Email: Dumping ground

David Hymers rightly talks about the improvements to the Ashton Canal. Would that the same could be said about the behaviour of some of the local residents.

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Published: 19 September 2012

Difficult lock gates

MANY lock gates, particularly on the Trent & Mersey Canal, are extremely difficult to move, being wrongly installed, and it is a matter of some urgency that they are rectified before more people find cruising too much like hard work, and give it up.

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Published: 16 September 2012

Michael Portillo at Tooley's

FORMER Cabinet minister,  Michael Portillo, who is at present filming the television series  Great British Railway Journeys, paid a visit to Tooley's Boatyard.

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Published: 16 September 2012

Boatyard on Thames island

THERE is to be a boatyard built on Brandy Island near Buscot Lock on the Thames despite opposition from the National Trust.

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Published: 16 September 2012

Plans for Wood Wharf

There are plans for the development of Wood Wharf on the Thames at Blackwall, with  architects appointed to devise a master plan for the whole 20 acres.

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Published: 16 September 2012

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