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Plank Lane open at last

THE Plank Lane Lift Bridge on the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal has been repaired and in now fully open to navigation.
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Published: 08 October 2016

Wanted—a strong association

IF ONLY we had a strong and outspoken boaters association looking after our interests perhaps the decline of the canals would cease, writes James Henry.

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Published: 07 October 2016

Would do it again

AROUND a year ago, we dreamed a plan of a fortnight's break on our boats from Loughborough to London, writes Ed Maltby.

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Published: 07 October 2016

Police want to interview boaters

THE police want to interview two boat owners whose boats were moored near Tesco at Whaley Bridge on the Peak Forest Canal concerning a 'heated dispute' between a man and a woman.

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Published: 07 October 2016

Stop blaming boaters

PICCADILLY Basin at the junction of the Rochdale and Aston canals has been drained again, and yet again boaters are being blamed.

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Published: 06 October 2016

Only time will tell

WHAT depressing reading! It does remind me of the saying 'what goes around comes around', writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 06 October 2016

Email: Rings true

That suggestion of Break It—Blame It—Sell It, when you think about the waterways certainly rings true.

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Published: 06 October 2016

Email: What a surprise!

I find the investigative powers of the police amazing, they have worked out that there is ‘a loophole in the law that allows people to live on canal boats without being on the electoral register'.

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Published: 06 October 2016

Aire & Calder closed

THE failure of Woodnook Lock, West of Castleford has closed the Aire & Calder Navigation.

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Published: 06 October 2016

Break It—Blame It— Sell It?

REGARDING your editorial: 'Undisclosed Agenda'. I've been long humming a little mantra to myself which I think sums up the long-term approach to much of our national infrastructure and service provision: Break It—Blame It—Sell It, writes Andrew Bailes.

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Published: 06 October 2016

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