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The Broads can do it

THE Broads Authority have no trouble meeting its target for dredging its waterways, even exceeding it.

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Published: 21 January 2010

Lucky escape on the Soar

INVESTIGATIONS are going on into how two teenagers were allowed to take to the flooded Soar in Leicester from the Outdoor Pursuits centre on a raft.

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Published: 21 January 2010

Waiting for permission

THOUGH a bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Todmorden is is urgent need of repair, work cannot start.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Boat fire was arson

THE police maintain that arsonists were responsible for the narrowboat fire on the river at Ware.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Anglers castigated

ANGLERS are being castigated in letters to local papers and blogs after a swan had to be put down after suffering for weeks through anglers' insensibility to the creatures, and 45 others effected.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Girl murdered on K&A towpath

A TEENAGE girl was found dead yesterday (Monday) on the towpath of the Kennet & Avon Canal at Reading.

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Published: 19 January 2010

Unsafe moorings

IT WOULD seem the permanent moorings at Tyrley on the Shropshire Union are not too safe.

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Published: 19 January 2010

"I'm a plonker!" says boater

A BOATER who took his narrowboat out in flood conditions and had it jammed against a bridge described himself as a 'plonker'!

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Published: 19 January 2010

Information on waterways

THE Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) has created information packs for schools about the hazards of inland waterways.
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Published: 19 January 2010

Money for repairs

IT SEEMS that the trip boat on the Neath Canal will come to an end unless money in found for its repairs.

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Published: 19 January 2010

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