WE HAVE today come up the Aire & Calder from Ferrybridge to Stanley Ferry. This route took us through Woodnook Lock, writes Mike Todd.
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THERE is a call by the recently formed Big Bike Revival for groups of cyclists to get on their bikes and use such as the canal towpaths.
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MONEY from the Heritage Lottery Fund has secured initial funding for the repair of Stainton Aqueduct on the Lancaster Canal that was damaged by floods.
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I well remember the 'count' of kingfishers organised by Canal & River Trust and having quite a few conversations at the café at Stenson where I once moored, (not at the café but the marina!) so it's butterflies now, writes Morgan Stills.
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Never mind counting butterflies, How about counting how many miles of untrimmed canal edge on the towpath side there are, shedding weed into the water, clogging props, and nowhere to stop to clear them, with your engine stopped of course, due to the vegetation?
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THE Canal & River Trust is urging people to count wildlife again by its canals and rivers, this time to tell the number of Comma butterflies that are seen.
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A NEW residential development by the side of the Thames in Bray will include a Roux restaurant alongside their three star Michelin restaurant in the town.
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THE piece on electric boats [Victor] prompts me to comment on the absurdities which so-called educated people (educated idiots) in ivory towers who make decisions based on their own perspective of life and assuming that everyone can comply with their decision, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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HAVING spent the last couple of months cruising from Great Haywood via Middlewich, Wigan, Liverpool, Manchester, Standedge Tunnel, Wakefield, Keadby, Newark, Shardlow and Fradley to Poleseworth I think I am in a fairly good position to comment on the state of the system, at least its northern parts.
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The historic Tooley's Boatyard at Banbury on the Oxford Canal is hoping to create an apprenticeship scheme to train budding boat engineers.
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