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The disgrace that is Bank Newton

WITH an admitted 22 chamber hang-ups of boats in the Bank Newton Flight on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, it is indeed a disgrace, writes the Editor.

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Published: 29 November 2016

Won't prevent drownings

I'M AFRAID that no matter how tragic, or how much is done to prevent it, you will not be able to stop students, or anyone else for that matter, from getting paralytic with alcohol and falling into water and drowning, writes Owen Battle.

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Published: 28 November 2016

Email: Wood burning should be banned

I have just read your article on the dangers of wood smoke from boat stoves, and now intend to do something about the two boats' owners who burn nothing but wood on their stoves, and I get all the smoke.

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Published: 28 November 2016

Dangers of wood burning stoves

A STUDY by the very respected Royal College of Physicians has warned that wood burning stoves are not only bad for the environment but also your health with them contributing to 40,000 deaths a year!

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Published: 28 November 2016

Still they drown

The Avon at Bath has claimed yet another victim, and once again a student who had been out drinking.

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Published: 28 November 2016

Unofficial lock closure endangered solo lady boater

SOLO narrowboat owner, Amy, was endangered on the tidal Thames by the 'unofficial closure' during the end of October—without warning—of Brentford Lock that connects the tidal Thames to the Grand Union Canal, Ken Churchill tells us.

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Published: 25 November 2016

Emails: Notices won't help

Though I cannot help but feel for the poor lady who lost her son who jumped into a Rochdale Canal lock and died, I cannot see how Canal & River Trust putting up notices will help.

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Published: 24 November 2016

Boy jumped into lock to cure fear

A YOUNG boy jumped into a lock on the Rochdale Canal in Middleton during June with others in an attempt to cure his fear of water, but drowned.

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Published: 24 November 2016

Open Day at Elland Bridge

THE work being done on the re-building of Elland Bridge over the Calder and Hebble Navigation, can be inspected by the public this coming Saturday.

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Published: 24 November 2016

Erewash flasher caught

The man who has been exposing himself to women on the Erewash Canal towpath in Ilkeston has been arrested.

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Published: 24 November 2016

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