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Doesn't please everybody

THOUGH there are many boaters looking forward to the opening of the new marina at Audlem, others are very much against it.

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Published: 23 October 2009

Change for giant heads

THE two giant horses heads planned for the Forth & Clyde Canal, considered a waste of money, are still going ahead but facing a different way.

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Published: 22 October 2009

Support for the lost route to the sea

REGULAR readers will be well aware of the sterling work of the Wey & Arun Canal Trust in restoring the 'lost route to the sea'.

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Published: 21 October 2009

Stenson Bridge to be repaired at £200,000

THE bridge over the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stenson that had its parapet destroyed when a farmers' trailer toppled through it, is to be repaired at an estimated cost of £200,000.

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Published: 21 October 2009

Crime pays for two boats

MANY boaters have met Adrian Lane, one of the riverside rangers on the Leicester section of the Soar, whose small team have won a bid for funds from the Leicester & Rutland Criminal Justice Board.

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Published: 19 October 2009

BW recognises best volunteer projects

BRITISH Waterways is celebrating the importance of volunteers to the nation's canals and rivers by recognising ten groups across the regions whose work, it states, has dramatically benefited the waterways over the past 12 months.

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Published: 17 October 2009

BW backs down over 'outrageous' affair

BRITISH Waterways who put Tardebigge New Wharf residents' cottages up for sale without giving residents notice or first choice to buy, have backed down after an MPs involvement.

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Published: 16 October 2009

Still more houses by the canal

SOME ten years ago cruising through Burton-on-Trent on the Trent & Mersey Canal was fairly rural at its northern side, but massive development brought many houses.

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Published: 16 October 2009

Irresponsible anglers warned

THE RSPCA is asking anglers to take more care when fishing as their hooks are causing distress to swans on the River Great Ouse near Ely.

 

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Published: 16 October 2009

Work at Vale Royal

WORK is now well underway on the the smaller of the two locks at Vale Royal on the Weaver including the wall that collapsed six years ago.

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Published: 15 October 2009

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