LIVING on the canals and being a keen observer of nature I'm somewhat bemused by the idea of a 'wildlife corridor', writes Ralph Freeman.
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THE cruiser belonging to actor Richard Cordery was broken into, its interior wrecked then set adrift at a canal centre on the Basingstoke Canal.
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A VICIOUS attack by a loose fighting dog on a Pomeranian that was on a lead on a towpath, resulted in it being blinded.
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LONDON'S only floating bookshop, Word on the Water, may be forced to close following a Canal & River Trust (CaRT) refusal of its application for a permanent mooring in Paddington Basin, writes Allan Richards.
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Those of us old enough to remember the involvement of English Nature in the Pocklington Canal and it's lack of restoration will fear the latest proposals that give them more influence in the waterways in general.
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PERHAPS one taxi driver had been reading too much about water taxis, for he drove his own into the Caldon Canal, but alas it did not float.
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BOATERS are incensed at the news that English Nature wants to use the waterways for a route for birds, insects and mammals as wildlife corridors, with its accompanying restrictions to boating, and write:
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IT WAS River Canal Rescue (RCR) that raised the lock-stricken boat out of Wash House Lock at Bath after the emergency assistance firm was called in to help.
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LATE last week, I received a copy of the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) guide to its new Operations & Asset Management structure as from 1st November, writes Allan Richards.
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