I READ with some interest the piece 'IWA pinch our slogan!' from Allan Richards. It reminded me of a comment by the late Mandy Rice Davies who died last month. Which I shall paraphrase as 'the IWA would do that wouldn't they!' Writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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IF YOU are something of a football fan—and you can cast your mind back to the late 80's early 90's. You might well remember 'Saint and Greavsie' on television, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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THE Inland Waterways Association (IWA) difficulty in differentiating itself from Canal & River Trust (CaRT) may be drawing to a close, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Environment Agency have closed the Leicester Line owing to pollution entering the waterway from adjoining land at Kibworth.
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THE museum at Foxton Locks has closed for the winter and is to be transformed at a cost of £200,000 to become 'app-friendly' so people can be guided round using their mobile phones.
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WHAT will the ecologists call the next shrimp they find in our waters—the Devil Shrimp? Asks James Henry.
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FOR some while large non-native shrimps have been resident in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, but are spreading to rivers, the latest being the Douglas, and are causing great concern amongst the ecologists.
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THE discovery of a stone inscription on a canal lock in Newbury on the Kennet & Avon Canal has led 40 years later to some of the volunteers who restored it, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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ON CHRISTMAS Eve a car went a little too far when parking in the spaces at Kegworth Flood Lock on the Soar, and went straight into the river.
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