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Don't want it—drop it!

READERS have been quick to agree with our contributor who complained about the litter by and in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, and Bill Ridgeway sums it up:

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Published: 19 January 2017

Too much rubbish

I EXPECT that now that Canal & River Trust has allowed for more boats to visit Liverpool Docks at the end of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, many will be taking up the offer, writes Joseph Forde.

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Published: 18 January 2017

Email: Did a favour

I realise I am only one of your many readers, and must count for little, but after the seemingly never-ending anti Canal & River Trust campaign from you-know-who, (whom I now learn you sensibly dropped), I stopped reading narrowboatworld.

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Published: 18 January 2017

Wrong way!

A WOMAN definitely took the wrong way with her car when leaving her parking by the Thames in Henley, coming to an abrupt stop.

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Published: 18 January 2017

More canal-side ash trees illegally felled

A NUMBER of mature ash trees by the Grand Union Canal at Willow Wren Wharf at Southall have been illegally felled, with branches falling on the towpath that were hastily removed.

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Published: 18 January 2017

Funding help to find Cuckoo boat

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust has received funding of £10,000 that it will use to attempt to discover a Cuckoo boat.

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Published: 18 January 2017

Doesn't anybody check?

IT REALLY takes some believing that CaRT can on its website say the broad Hatton Locks were built in the 30s using modern methods yet one of them also say they were built by pick axes and shovels, writes James Henry.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Fight on Thames boat

SUCH was the ferocity of a fight on a boat on the Thames near Westminster Pier that three people had to be rushed to hospital.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Read with total disbelief

I READ the report on the clearance of the top end paddle at Woodend Lock with total disbelief, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 16 January 2017

Boats moved from Gloucester Museum

THE boat displays at Gloucester Docks are to be removed, Canal & River Trust state to enable refurbishment of the waterway museum.
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Published: 16 January 2017

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