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Email: Not fair

Raining or not, Patrick Fellows is wrong to just leave his hire boat on the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes (Email: Had enough) expecting the hire company to fetch it back.

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Published: 26 August 2014

Email: Had enough

We are stuck in the rain on the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes, and after a day of it yesterday have given up, put the wife on a taxi to the train station to get back to the hire place for the car.

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Published: 26 August 2014

Ecologists want to close Ashby Canal

THE ecologists in the form of Natural England want to close the Ashby Canal to boats to protect its ecology from disturbance, and they are backed by the anglers.

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Published: 26 August 2014

Trust nearly lost its ducks

A LARGE bag full of yellow plastic ducks being transported to the Mon & Brec Canal for its duck race, very nearly did not make it.

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Published: 26 August 2014

Skippers wanted

THE Kennet & Avon Canal Trust is wanting skippers for its Hungerford based trip boat Rose of Hungerford, with the offer to train volunteers to Maritime & Coastguard Agency Boatmaster level.

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Published: 25 August 2014

Preventing Sawley engine thefts

ALTHOUGH the police were brought in to investigate the boat outboard engine thefts at Sawley Marina earlier this year, engines are still being stolen.

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Published: 25 August 2014

Maesbury Canal Festival

A GOOD selection of trading boats as well as historic and decorated boats will be on show at Maesbury Canal Festival on the Montgomery Canal.

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Published: 23 August 2014

In time for the holidays

THE Leeds & Liverpool Canal is closed at Lock 64 at Johnson's Hill Flight, the bottom lock, and again it is a cill that needs repairing.

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Published: 22 August 2014

Weevils to clear Huddersfield Broad

SUCH is the growth of the Azolla Weed on the Huddersfield Broad Canal, that Canal & River Trust has released around  4,000 weed munching weevils to control it.

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Published: 22 August 2014

CaRT's £20.5m visitor attraction

THE Three Mills Lock by the Olympic Stadium is to be open to the public tomorrow (Saturday) as a visitor attraction.

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Published: 22 August 2014

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