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Angler perverts the course of justice

SOME anglers will go to any lengths to try and get away with fishing in the closed season, but one angler, fishing the river section of the Kennet & Avon Canal went too far, it costing him £500.

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Published: 09 March 2012

Big Lock pub reopens

THE canalside Big Lock pub on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Middlewich has reopened after it closure for refurbishment of its interior.

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Published: 09 March 2012

Leader now blaming his lieutenants

NOW I have heard it all—and as usual, from Allan Richards' reliable ear-to-the-ground source, writes Ian Smith.

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Published: 09 March 2012

'Ideal' canal ignored in favour of lorries

LININGS for a Crossrail tunnel portal cast at a works by the side of a canal that are needed just two miles away, again by the canal, are to be transported by lorries along an already overcrowded road.

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Published: 09 March 2012

Full circle after 200 years

JUST over 200 years ago Samuel Whitbread, Member of Parliament for Bedford, was the driving force behind the plan to create a waterway linking the Grand Junction Canal (now the Grand Union) at Milton Keynes with the River Great Ouse at Bedford.

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Published: 08 March 2012

Regents Canal body is EastEnders actress

IT HAS been confirmed that the headless body pulled out of the Regents Canal at Hackney is that of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie.

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Published: 08 March 2012

Lots of events at Ellesmere

THE National Waterways Museum, has lots of events lined up for boaters and visitors during 2012.

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Published: 08 March 2012

Dredging makes road dangerous

RESIDENTS living on a road by the side of the Kennet & Avon Canal have told it is dangerous as dredging is causing the sludge to spill on to the main A34 in Newbury.

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Published: 07 March 2012

No entitlement to moor against own land

IN THE case of Nigel Moore v British Waterways Board, Mr Justice Hildyard has ruled  that a riparian owner has no entitlement, simply by owning the land, to moor a vessel alongside their land.

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Published: 07 March 2012

Marina gets CCTV

TO CATCH any vandals at the recently opened Caen Hill Marina on the Kennet & Avon Canal, the management is installing CCTV to cover the whole marina.

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Published: 07 March 2012

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