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Aston Marina Farm Shop to close

THE Farm Shop at Aston Marina on the Trent & Mersey Canal is to close, the owners believing that using the premises to extend the restaurant will be more successful.

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Published: 24 January 2017

Police called to step up towpath patrols

THE robberies on the towpath in Hackney Wick on the Lee Navigation are getting so bad that the police have been called to step up patrols.

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Published: 24 January 2017

Victor: More exaggerated statistics

THE urge to turn towpaths into cycle tracks as we all know is now well up on the agenda, with the latest being to widen the towpath through Edgbaston Tunnel on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.

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Published: 22 January 2017

Shorter Bridgewater closure

PEEL Holdings, that operate the Bridgewater Canal have told us that it is shortening the length of the stoppage to replace a bridge over the waterway.

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Published: 20 January 2017

Cruised over an unexploded bomb

IT IS perhaps a worrying thought that many boaters have cruised over an unexploded bomb in the Thames—us included!

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Published: 20 January 2017

Takes issue

I must take issue with James Henry. No doubt the withdrawal of lengthsmen is part of the problem.
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Published: 20 January 2017

Rubbish and the Leeds & Liverpool

AS A BOATER and volunteer on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal can I add the following, [concerning the article about the rubbish] writes Dave Hargreaves.

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Published: 20 January 2017

Audlem lock open to public

ONE of the drained locks on Audlem Flight is being made open to the public to go down into it to see how it works.

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Published: 19 January 2017

The reason for the litter

THE rubbish that we are seeing more and more both in the canals and around the towpaths is without any doubt the result of a decision by the then British Waterways, writes James Henry.

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Published: 19 January 2017

Leicester Riverside Festival

THIS year marks the 20th anniversary of Leicester Riverside Festival, an annual two day festival that takes place over the first Saturday and Sunday in June.

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Published: 19 January 2017

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