ALREADY somewhat disillusioned with the world in general and Canal & River Trust in particular, I was not surprised to see the latest idiocy that is now being brought to bear on the Ashby Canal, writes Orph Mable.
MANY boaters have told us that they believe leaving a hire boat out on a canal and going home because of the weather is a silly thing to do.
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NOT only are the locks crumbling, but bridges too are collapsing on the Oxford Canal, with one falling into the waterway.
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I WAS somewhat surprised by the article stating that the Environmentalists wish to close the Ashby Canal, writes Mike Stone, Chairman of the Grantham Canal Society, (GCS) and he makes the following points:
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I HEARD a rumour recently that CaRT are considering closing the Aylesbury Arm for five months over the winter in order to tackle the leakage problems, writes Peter Lloyd.
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THE heavy rainfall over the past few days has solved the problem of lack of water in the Cherwell after illegal abstraction.
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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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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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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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