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Email: Get the blame

I realise it is the done thing for the Canal & River Trust to get the blame for all the stoppages these days, but are we forgetting the canals are now around 200 years old and need a lot of attention?

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Published: 08 June 2016

Email: Aston stoppage

I was surprised when I got to the Aston Flight to find it closed, as it was being repaired, as there was no intimation of this when we turned under Spaghetti Junction, so had to go back.

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Published: 08 June 2016

Open Days at White Mills

THE success of the Open Days at the new White Mills Marina at Earls Barton on the Nene, has prompted three more this summer.

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Published: 08 June 2016

Welford Arm open

NOTWITHSTANDING the Canal & River Trust website stating the Welford Arm is closed, it is in fact open.

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Published: 08 June 2016

Now it's 'general works programme'

DUE to the overwhelming pressure of bad publicity and boaters unable to either get into or out of Birmingham on to the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, due to two closures, Canal & River Trust have re-opened the Aston Flight.

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Published: 08 June 2016

Not good enough

FOUR of us go to a great deal of trouble to arrange a canal boat holiday together, having different employment, but have enjoyed it immensely for the past four years, writes Ellis Greaterex.

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Published: 06 June 2016

The Big Pull on its way

THE boat pull along the Chesterfield Canal got off to a good start on Saturday with the first group pulling the boat from its start at Shireoaks for two miles to the Priory Centre at Worksop.

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Published: 06 June 2016

Birmingham cut-off

IN ADDITION to the closure of the Aston Flight into Birmingham, the alternative via the Garrison Flight is also now closed.

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Published: 04 June 2016

Llangollen Canal searched

THERE could be delays at Chirk Bank on the Llangollen Canal, as police have divers searching the canal.

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Published: 03 June 2016

Shopping centre by stealth?

REGARDING Kevin McNiff's question 'will the £15 million investment [Onley Marina] ever get a return'? writes Howard Clarke.

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Published: 03 June 2016

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