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Actors to encourage volunteers

ACTORS are now being used to encourage people to become volunteer lock keepers.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Hope for money from hydro power

THERE is the hope of money from a  proposed hydro-electric scheme to help the restoration of Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Fisherman dies at Cromwell Lock

A FISHERMAN has died and another is in hospital after their boat overturned at Cromwell Lock on the Trent.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Cannot be measurable

WHILE wishing to thank John Dodswell (narrowboatworld 08-01-12) for responding to my missive about the AIMS of Canal & River Trust, I would want to challenge a little of what is written, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 14 January 2012

Canal & River Trust in doubt

WE HAVE discovered that the new waterways charity, Canal & River Trust, will not come into being in April as promised, and there are serious doubts that it will ever come into being at all.

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Published: 14 January 2012

Waterways are for boats

HERE we go again, John Dodwell is a boater, and tells us however canals are not just for boats—actually that's exactly their original purpose.

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Published: 14 January 2012

Towpath tent burglars

A TENT erected on the towpath of the Ouse in York housed four suspected burglars.

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Published: 13 January 2012

Combating lack of water

Your readers may be interested in the plans that British Waterways is putting into place to maximise water resources in the Midlands and South East ahead of the main boating season, writes Vince Moran, British Waterways Operations Director.

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Published: 13 January 2012

Cam rowers too slam Conservators

IT IS not only resident boaters and boating visitors who are up in arms over the drastic increase in licences on the Cam, but rowers too have joined in the battle.

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Published: 13 January 2012

BW risking contempt of court

MORE like 'British Waterways shows contempt for customers'.
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Published: 13 January 2012

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  • Narrowboat recovered from Bath Deep Lock
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  • Gloucester Docks still silted-up
  • Lack of water still closing waterways
  • 14 days rule suspension ends on the 1st October
  • Mercia Marina gets award for outstanding visitor experience
  • A big day for action at Whitchurch
  • Is Yorkshire closed yet?
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  • The site of the new leak/breach on the Llangollen Canal
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  • Sykehouse Lift Bridge breaks yet again
  • For the love of canals
  • Lack of experience
  • Cannot understand the reason for stoppage

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