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Want your votes

A PLAN to help young people in Ellesmere Port develop new skills and interests has been selected by the NatWest Community Force Scheme to face a public vote.

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Published: 26 September 2011

Email: Boaters' wash

Given Pam's recent comment about a boater's wash, I thought I might mention the obvious and state that breaking waves generally occur due to shallowing water.

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Published: 26 September 2011

Make your own fenders

HERE'S a chance for boaters to save themselves money, by learning how to make their own boat fenders.

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Published: 26 September 2011

More Regent's cyclists complaints

PARENTS, children and pupils from a school have put more pressure on British Waterways to do something about the increasing number and speed of cyclists on the Regent's Canal towpath.

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Published: 26 September 2011

Posters by the Avon

POSTERS have now been put up in Bath warning of the dangers of walking by the river.

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Published: 26 September 2011

Chairmen for new charity partnerships

THE new waterways charity is recruiting chairmen for the new waterways partnerships that should come into being in April of next year.

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Published: 24 September 2011

No charity for the Broads

THE government has decided that the Broads Authority will retain current governance arrangements, and will not be turned into a charity like British Waterways.

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Published: 24 September 2011

Marina opposition continuous

SUCH is the force against a marina being built at Swindon on the Staffs & Worcs Canal that the opposition has requested the local MEP to present its case to the European Union.

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Published: 24 September 2011

Downturn hits boatyard

THERE are plans to sell off part of the property belonging to Hapton Boatyard on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal due to the downturn in orders.

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Published: 23 September 2011

Autumn report from the Fens

SINCE late June,  Cambridgeshire and West Norfolk were declared to be areas of East Anglia that are in drought, with parts of the Midlands, South West and South East in a 'near-drought' state, writes Kelvin Alexander.

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Published: 23 September 2011

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