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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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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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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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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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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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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