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Filling drained canal to allow boats out

A DAM is to be installed across the canal below the breach in the MIddlewich Branch to allow the stranded boats to be removed.

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Published: 21 March 2018

Covering all eventualities

MANY scenarios meet the teams from River Canal Rescue when they attend a problem, which means the training to tackle them has to be kept up to date.

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Published: 21 March 2018

More anti-drunk barriers in Manchester

IN RESPONSE to the call for more fencing after Charlie Pope drowned in the Rochdale Nine in Manchester, a temporary barrier has been erected to get people to use a footbridge instead of a lock to cross the waterway.

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Published: 19 March 2018

Middlewich canal 'dredged'

THE Middlewich Guardian would have us believe that the Middlewich Branch has been dredged by the aqueduct over the Wheelock which is why it is empty!

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Published: 19 March 2018

Scouts clean-up canal basin

SCOUT leaders were concerned at the amount of rubbish around the basin of the Staffs & Worcs Canal in Stourport so a troop had a day cleaning it up.

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Published: 19 March 2018

Cow stolen

A COW has been stolen from the side of the Nene at Ramsey, in the Fens.

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Published: 19 March 2018

An inaccurate survey

THE Worcester Canal Group is asking people to take photographs of the wildlife on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal as a survey to ascertain what lives on the water,

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Published: 19 March 2018

Victor: The Middlewich Branch failure

YOU really have to feel sorry for the hire companies attempting to operate in this day and age on the waterways.

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Published: 18 March 2018

Middlewich Branch Breach

Middlewich Aqueduct goneTHE Canal & River Trust statement that there has been an embankment failure on the Middlewich Branch was an understatement!

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Published: 16 March 2018

Gongoozler: Mooring and signage

WALKING along towpaths I notice that there is often no standardisation of the signage to distinguish between short and longer term moorings.

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Published: 16 March 2018

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