HAVING first-hand knowledge of the problems of the Trent & Mersey Canal, contributor Ralph Freeman offers suggestions how they can be fixed to make life easier for boaters.
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THE Festival of the Rivers that was cancelled earlier this year owing to high water levels on the Ouse is to be held instead later this month in York.
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IT MUST have been with a sigh of relief that Sue Day finished her marathon trek with a horse drawn boat of the entire length of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from Leeds to Pier Head at Liverpool.
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WITH the Wendover Arm Trust losing out on its big fund raising Wendover Festival this year, it is organising a sponsored walk to raise funds towards its further restoration.
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A boater cruising the Leeds & Liverpool Canal disputes the claim made by Canal & River Trust concerning the number of unlicenced boats, with Peter Ponting writing:
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We felt exactly the same as Dave Bulbeck about the Droitwich canals experience. We too visited the canals this year and felt the lack of moorings.
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THE Hungerford-based Bruce Trust which provides holidays for disabled people on the Kennet & Avon Canal is sending one of its boats on an 82 miles journey to provide accommodation at the Paralympics for disabled visitors.
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THEY seem to be a complaining lot as far as the Cam is concerned in Cambridge, with the latest being about the cows grazing where they have had rights for centuries.
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One of my colleagues lives alongside the canal near Whitchurch, and on the 30th July his eight years old black Labrador went missing, writes Angela Baines.
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Have just come up the Droitwich from the river end, and I am very impressed with the canal and the work that has been done.
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