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Towpaths could help restore canal

MEMBERS of the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust believe that first restoring towpaths along the derelict sections of the waterway could help with its eventual restoration.

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Published: 12 March 2012

New canal for freight

WORK has started on the plan for a new 106 kilometres canal for the movement of freight—but alas, not in England but across France.

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Published: 12 March 2012

Moorings booze ban continues

THE booze ban that was enforced on a trial basis at Shobnall Fields at Burton, including the Trent & Mersey Canal moorings is to be continued.

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Published: 10 March 2012

Wigan Pier for sale—again

THE noise levels being created by the revellers in the famous Wigan Pier pub, that is a well known night club, caused it to be closed, but it is on the market again.

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Published: 10 March 2012

Email: Scandalous not using canal

IT IS scandalous that use of the canal was not even considered to move these concrete units. ['Ideal' canal ignored in favour of lorries—narrowboatworld 9/03/12.]

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Published: 10 March 2012

Email: Sludge spilling

I am surprised that a contractor is allowed to carry out work, and have sludge spilling onto the highway. [Dredging makes road dangerous—narrowboatworld 7th March, 2012.]

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Published: 09 March 2012

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

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