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CaRT tells Toddbrook Reservoir needs rebuilding

A SPOKESMAN for the Environment Agency maintains Toddbrook Reservoir requires significant engineering works.

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Published: 08 August 2019

Someone should have noticed

YOUR correspondent Mrs L Hartley’s letter is the first that I have read which mentions the state of the valves controlling the working of the reservoir, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 08 August 2019

Horses at Work' returns to the National Waterways Museum

THE popular 'Horses at Work' event returns to the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port.

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Published: 08 August 2019

Objectors don't want student flats by canal

NEW plans for Leamington canal side student flats have been re-submitted after original plans were withdrawn.

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Published: 08 August 2019

Sick joke caused police search

THE police in Birmingham responded to the report of a body in a canal, but discovered it was a sick joke.

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Published: 08 August 2019

Bugs to control invasive canal weed

THE Wey & Arun Canal Trust is enlisting the help of 1,000 tiny bugs to help control an invasive water fern which can clog the waterway and threaten other plants, fish and invertebrae.

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Published: 08 August 2019

No CART employees though torrents the previous evening

I HAD been videoing and photographing the situation [at Toddbrook Reservoir] since Sunday prior to the incident, writes Mrs. L Hartley.

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Published: 07 August 2019

Make-shift and inadequate repair of canal structure

Despite Richard Parry's response on national television that they had money for maintenance, writes Brian D Jarrett.

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Published: 07 August 2019

Standedge Tunnel still closed

STANDEDGE Tunnel that was closed on Monday has still not been reopened.

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Published: 07 August 2019

How can it be taken to a higher level?

I AGREE with John Coxon that 'We need a full public enquiry into this incident and all the other failures of the system supposedly maintained by CaRT', writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 07 August 2019

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