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Voles must mate first

A CAMPAIGN backed by a local councillor to upgrade a section of the Oxford Canal towpath into a cycle track has been delayed so as to avoid the vole mating season.

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Published: 20 January 2015

Indefinite bridge closure

NO OPENING date can be given for the failed Wood End Lift Bridge on the Peak Forest Canal that was damaged earlier this month.

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Published: 20 January 2015

Dutch invaders

THERE has been much speculation in the newspapers, radio, television and various political parties about a potential invasion of humanity from Eastern Europe, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 20 January 2015

Still looking into the hole

SILENCE now surrounds Canal & River Trust's closure of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Dutton (Dutton has leaked since being repaired), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 19 January 2015

Student drowns as 999 call missed

OWING to a 999 call being missed by operators, the emergency services arrived too late to save a student who had fallen in the Avon from drowning.

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Published: 17 January 2015

Dean was the man

TO MY mind Dean Davis was one of the best managers the Canal & River Trust had, always willing to help boaters and putting himself out to do so, writes James Henry.

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Published: 16 January 2015

Email: Not necessary

During the summer I had my boat moored by the flats at Brentford, [Grand Union Canal] and took particular notice of the passage of narrowboats either on to or off the Thames.

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Published: 16 January 2015

Grant for Chesterfield Canal lock

PLANS to install new lock gates on a lock in Staveley on the Chesterfield Canal can now go ahead thanks to a funding  from the Veolia Environmental Trust.

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Published: 15 January 2015

Shedding no tears

I FOR one will certainly shed no tears over the loss of Phil Spencer, CaRT's erstwhile Head of Business Boating. That he argued that Canal & River Trust was in total ownership of our waterways and could therefore do as it liked did nothing to warm me to him, or to the Trust, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 15 January 2015

Lock keepers for unused canal!

THE Canal & River Trust is surpassing itself in it sheer stupidity—it is asking for volunteer lock keepers for a Cornish waterway that powered boats cannot access!

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Published: 15 January 2015

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Latest

  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed
  • Long closure caused by building demolition
  • Just one puppy lived of three dumped on canal towpath
  • Could be a long stoppage at Kennet & Avon lock
  • How the boat rescue was undertaken
  • Rain, rain and more rain
  • Two problems at Keadby Lock
  • Boaters emptying cassette toilets into canal
  • Stoke-on-Trent museums at risk
  • Seven months closure ends
  • Moorers taking part in Dogs Behaving Very Badly

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