A FRIEND told me about your site and that someone had gone up the Soar to get to Norton Junction but learned it was closed having reaching the outskirts of Leicester, and having to turn back, writes Bill Grant.
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IN RESPONSE to our comment concerning Stan and Steph White waiting five days for a call-out to attend a leaking stern gland, Stephanie Horton from River Canal Rescue replies:
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PERSHORE Lock Island on the Avon is to be transformed into a visitor friendly wildlife haven should the public get behind the scheme.
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We recently completed the so called CaRT boating consultation. (After several phone calls to obtain the email link), writes Stewart Downs.
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LORRY loads of rubbish have been dumped by the side of the canal at the eastern end of Harecastle Tunnel.
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A MAN that jumped on to a narrowboat moored at Caversham on the Thames and groped a woman on board has been jailed.
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THEY are the disturbing words from Canal & River Trust concerning the problems with the Shropshire Union Canal at Bunbury.
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THROUGHOUT most of the period during which they existed, British Waterways progressively degenerated into what eventually became CaRT, and CaRT really aren't doing anything much other than elevate BW's short-sighted and bloody-minded incompetence to new levels, writes Tony Dunkley.
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THOUGH the pipe running alongside the bridge over the canal at Bootle is protected, teenagers are still getting on to it with one falling onto the towpath to his death.
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THE lack of maintenance of the towpath in Rickmansworth on the Grand Union Canal is causing sinkholes to appear.
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