THE good news is that this morning, Thursday, at 11am the Anderton Boat Lift re-opened once again, but the bad news was that 33 people were marooned when it broke on Sunday.
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THE leaking Acton's Lock (7) on the Regents Canal has drained the pound, with further leakages causing low water levels along 26 miles between Camden and Cowley.
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THERE is the opportunity for trading boats to do business at the annual Sawley Autumn Market later this year.
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TWO men have been charged with the murder of another man after pushing him off a canal bridge.
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ALREADY well established as the marina with the most facilities, Mercia Marina is 'at it again' with yet another massive development, giving even more facilities for boaters and the public alike.
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TWO boaters brought our attention to the various Canal & River Trust features in the Guardian, but what we did not at first realise was they were not actual real news items at all but sheer propaganda by the Trust itself—and paid for!
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THE peak Forest is not doing too well these days, being closed in April, then in May and now again today. all of course due to failures of one sort or another.
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NOTWITHSTANDING the increased security at the ninth annual Stratford River Festival, there was no terrorist alert.
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THE Canal & River Trust have admitted that the 'leak' in the Macclesfield Canal near Bollington has 'become substantially worse', so the boats moored nearby have been moved away and the moorings closed.
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As a native of Eton, and a keen canoeist as a youth I soon learned both the Thames Conservancy ‘rules’ are actually licencing arrangements, I think it was in shillings per year then! Writes Geoff Low.
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