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Walkers to help restoration

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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Published: 16 August 2012

The licence 'facts' disputed

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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Published: 16 August 2012

Email: Those Droitwich reeds

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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Published: 15 August 2012

Trust boat for Paralympics

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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Published: 15 August 2012

Cows or humans?

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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Published: 15 August 2012

Missing Labrador

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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Published: 15 August 2012

Email: Lack of mooring

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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Published: 15 August 2012

Email: Three classes

I am afraid Amy Dickerson has taken an incorrect view of boaters and the boating world.

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Published: 15 August 2012

More Chesterfield Canal vandalism

THE water level between West Retford Lock and Forest Bottom Lock on the Chesterfield Canal has dropped dramatically due to vandalism.

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Published: 13 August 2012

Diesel and the 60/40 split

ORPH's detailed explanation of what is required by law to supply 'go-go juice' to us boaters gives an insight into the cash flow issues surrounding the stuff, writes Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 13 August 2012

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Latest

  • Embankment breaches getting worse
  • Sutton Weaver Swing Bridge get repaired
  • More lock gates failing
  • They're all out!
  • More stoppages and solutions
  • More boats off the Weaver
  • Getting tough with the skivers
  • Obstruction still stopping navigation
  • Two more stoppages yesterday
  • River Canal Rescue competition winner
  • Getting the two boats out of the Llangollen Canal breach
  • Two lock repairs completed
  • BBC film the work being undertaken by Cotswold Canals Trust
  • Kennet & Avon lock to be repaired during season
  • Boat stranded teetering over Whitchurch breach refloated
  • Bridgewater Canal set to be reopened by December this year
  • Two more canal closures
  • Pollution still entering Chesterfield Canal
  • Move across to the canal
  • Feasibility study to replace Skipton bridge

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