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WITH a new season just around the corner I can see the whole waterways system grinding to a fairly sudden halt for boaters, writes John Coxon.

THE Canal & River Trust is beginning a six-month trial looking at the benefits of changing the mowing regime along its towpaths.

THE second death in Leigh sees a man found dead in the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal with multiple injuries.

IT WOULD seem that Canal & River Trust is ready for the Leeds & Liverpool swing bridge failures this year.

IT HAS been disclosed that the repair to Whaley Bridge reservoir could cost up to £16 millions.

ONCE again the Macclesfield Canal is closed.

A FIRE by the site of the old Stanton Iron Works in Ilkeston closed the Erewash Canal yesterday.

ACCORDING to the Daily Telegraph website people will be able to visit their second homes this coming Easter.

HERE'S a comment from one of our regular contributors that certainly tells it like it is!:

IT WAS late October of last year that a void appeared in Saltersford Lock on the Weaver.

"We are looking into establishing a method of repair"