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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

Boat fire causes consternation

A BOAT fire on Birmingham Main Line by the ICC Conference Centre caused consternation on Monday as it was near where the Tory Conference was being held.

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Published: 06 October 2016

Email: Situation on the GU

I was most pleased that someone has dared to write about the situation of the Grand Union Canal with all those continuous moorers.

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Published: 05 October 2016

Only extends to residential moorings

IN RESPONSE to Dave Stead's blithe assertion that CaRT must be a landlord, Kevin MCilroy writes.
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Published: 05 October 2016

Is Torksey Lock closed?

A CONFUSING stoppage notice from CaRT gives the impression the lock off the tidal Trent on to the Fossdyke at Torksey is open yet it states it is closed!
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Published: 05 October 2016

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