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Do we need lock volunteers?

THOUGH there have been favourable comments, there have been many complaints about the attitude towards boaters of volunteers assisting at locks during the past season, with some seemingly 'power-mad', whilst others are just not capable.

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Published: 20 December 2013

Chief Executive side-steps

ON READING the recent article (Parry on Forgery and Fraud) I was very disconcerted over what came across as insincere comments from Richard Parry in response to Allan Richards' article alleging forgery of a CaRT land holdings map, the Terrier Map for Brentford, writes Del Brenner.

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Published: 18 December 2013

Culverts repaired

BOTH the failed culverts on the Shropshire Union Canal beyond Chester have now been repaired, with the navigation fully open.
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Published: 18 December 2013

Parry on 'Forgery and fraud'

CANAL & River Trust (CaRT) Chief Executive, Richard Parry, has been in touch over the weekend to dismiss the alleged forgery of a document as entirely irrelevant, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 16 December 2013

Refurbishing Ferret

THE Inland Waterways Association Chester & Merseyside branch members were delighted to donate £800 towards vital repair work on historic narrowboat Ferret which will be carried out at the Heritage Boatyard (at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port) by Boat Museum Society volunteers and trainees on a Heritage Lottery Fund scheme 'Keeping History Afloat'.

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Published: 16 December 2013

Upsetting sensibilities

THERE is a proposal to close off the towpath in the canal underpass of the Rochdale Nine—known as the Undercroft—in Manchester in the hours of darkness, to prevent various activities that are rife in the tunnel.

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Published: 14 December 2013

Live pony dumped in canal

A PONY has been found dumped in the Oxford Canal near Rugby to drown, for it is believed it was still alive when dragged in.

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Published: 14 December 2013

Restoring the 'Monty'

RESTORING the Montgomery Canal has always been a slow job, as Harry Arnold and what must now be thousands of other volunteers will testify. But I think the problems are currently much more about funding than any hostility, (Hostility to Montgomery restoration) writes Stephen Lees.

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Published: 13 December 2013

Ideal example

I SEE that the problems down at the Cam Conservators continue. I recently did a bit of research on visitor numbers to the inland waterways, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 13 December 2013

Shroppie culvert repaired

THE damaged culvert on the western end of the Shropshire Union Canal has been repaired and the waterway is again open along the short section.

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Published: 13 December 2013

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