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Cooled-down in the Shroppie

THE extreme heat of earlier this week proved too much for one man who took to swimming in the Shropshire Union Canal in Chester—naked.

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Published: 30 August 2019

Did not 'take to the life'

I NOTICE that people use your columns to tell when they are packing up in boats, so hope I can do the same, writes Dell Whiting.

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Published: 29 August 2019

Food and stallholders desert IWA Festival debacle

MY WIFE and I attended the Inland Waterways Association Festival of Water, last Sunday, writes David Probett.

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Published: 29 August 2019

This time it was a 'leak'

BOATERS using the Rochdale Canal will be pleased to learn that the 'leak' was in fact just a 'leak', and not a breach after all.

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Published: 29 August 2019

Knocked over by fast cyclist

AS SOMEONE who witnessed a lady being knocked over by a fast cyclist on a towpath and the culprit speeding off I acclaim your publishing towpath dimensions, writes Henry Burchell.

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Published: 28 August 2019

Is the Rochdale breaching?

THERE has been an hasty dewatering of a pound on the Rochdale Canal.

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Published: 28 August 2019

In defence of CaRT

ALTHOUGH I am not a great supporter of CaRT I am afraid that I must come to its defence, writes Martin Cox.

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Published: 28 August 2019

Shroppie closed on Bank Holiday Monday

THE Shropshire Union Canal was closed on Bank Holiday Monday.

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Published: 28 August 2019

Minimum widths for combined cycle and pedestrian routes

THE Department of Transport (DoT) have issued a guideline for the design of paths for cyclists and pedestrians as part of road construction projects, writes Paul Robinson.

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Published: 26 August 2019

David: Shocking condition of Thames above Oxford

WE HAVE just spent four weeks on the Thames and the Wey and the contrast between their respective conditions was interesting.

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Published: 26 August 2019

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