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If CaRT won't do it...

IF CANAL & River Trust will not clean-up the Oxford Canal, one boater at least will do so.

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Published: 17 October 2019

Caught by Three

A STRANGE title, but those of you who use a Three dongle to obtain your internet will perhaps know that it has been 'down' since 10.30pm Wednesday evening and just back at 9.45 this morning—hence our late updates.

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Published: 17 October 2019

Remarkable nobody drowned

READING about the algae on the canal in Walsall it is remarkable that nobody drowned, writes T. Lang.

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Published: 16 October 2019

Publicity gets CaRT responding to Walsall danger

AFTER the bad publicity resulting from four people falling into its canal in one evening, Canal & River Trust have responded.

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Published: 16 October 2019

Virgin enjoy an awayday

DURING September, a group of seven keen volunteers from the Virgin Media Business Project Delivery team came to do some vegetation clearance along the Chesterfield Canal.

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Published: 16 October 2019

No further boats through Macclesfield stoppage

THOUGH Canal & River Trust stated that there will be a 'window' for boats through its Macclesfield Canal stoppage, the limit has been reach.

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Published: 16 October 2019

FOUR fall into canal as CaRT ignores dangerous algae

THERE have now been a total of four people falling into the Walsall Canal in a single evening as it is covered in green algae that looks like grass.

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Published: 14 October 2019

Wants to volunteer

AFTER hiring a narrowboat on the Trent & Mersey Canal it awakened my interest in the work on disused canals, writes Paul Harding.

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Published: 14 October 2019

Dawn Rose maintenance volunteers needed

THE narrowboat Dawn Rose is the only Chesterfield Canal boat in existence and was rebuilt over four years by a group of volunteers at Shireoaks Marina, where it is moored.

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Published: 14 October 2019

Victor: Toddbrook type dams need urgent attention

AT 200 odd years old, with one failed and at least one other failing, those dams I reckon have reached their 'sell-by' date and need urgent attention.

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Published: 13 October 2019

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