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EA a law unto itself

REGARDING your comment about the Environment Agency (EA) and its complete disregard for the [mooring] rules, this is no surprise to me whatsoever, writes Paul Jenkins.

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Published: 29 December 2016

Email: Pleased he was jailed

I was most pleased to read that one of the youths who attacked that teenager on the [Stourbridge Canal] towpath had been jailed.

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Published: 29 December 2016

Minshull Lock repaired

ANYONE who uses the Middlewich Arm of the Shropshire Union Canal will be pleased to hear that the new bottom gates at Minshull Lock now hold water, and the new paddle gear is much easier to work, writes Linda Andrews.

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Published: 27 December 2016

Idiotic EA moorings enforcement

With reference to your article on 23rd December regarding new arrangements for the Environment Agency (EA) Thames visitor moorings, perhaps there are several points visiting boaters might like to take into account before swallowing this latest piece of idiotic abrogation of responsibility by the EA, writes David Mercer.

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Published: 27 December 2016

Jailed for canal bridge attack

A TEENAGER who was part of a gang that attacked a young man who was sheltering under a canal bridge has been jailed for three years.

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Published: 27 December 2016

David: Bargees? Travellers?

THE chutzpah of the self-styled National Bargees Travellers Association never ceases to amaze me. Its latest semi-literate outpouring really takes the biscuit and I feel that some rebuttal is called for.

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Published: 26 December 2016

Mercia from the air

A RARE photograph taken from the drone of Richard Triggs showing the extent of Mercia Marina from 150 feet.

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Published: 23 December 2016

New system for Thames moorings

THE Environment Agency has done away with regulating its moorings on the Thames and passed it on to a private company that will run them on the car park system.

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Published: 23 December 2016

Canalside development to include new marina

A MASSIVE development is planned by the side of the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes, that will include a new marina.

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Published: 22 December 2016

Flow halted over Avon weir

A LARGE branch of a tree has become wedged under the radial gate of Pulteney Weir on the Avon in Bath, stopping water flowing over the weir.

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Published: 22 December 2016

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