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THE National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port is playing host to an atmospheric exhibition of linocut art by celebrated canal artist Eric Gaskell.

FOLLOWING a review of spending by Canal & River Trust is has been decided to reduce the hours that locks will be manned.

I HAVE to agree with Victor about the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. I tried to do it last year. I draw 28 inches and I measured only 21 inches between locks 14E/15E so turned round at the winding hole at lock 9E and went back, writes Keith Gudgin.

WITH developers now interested in a new canal-side village at Measham, the future for the 'last mile' of the restoration of the Ashby Canal seems bright.

Your story the Canal & River Trust 'emergency' number makes shocking reading.

Further to the article about the CaRT emergency number I saw the same communication problem during the boat fire incident at Sutton Stop that I reported last week writes, Keith Gudgin.

AT PRESENT it is not know what caused the collapse of the wall of Lock 12 on the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

A new floating café  opened on Good Friday on the river moorings on the Avon below Pulteney Weir in Bath, based in a specially converted 70ft narrowboat.

THE Victorians built the magnificent Gloucester Docks and the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal linking it to Sharpness and the sea, writes Chris Witts.

THE MP, Barry Sheerman, is urging boaters to safeguard against carbon monoxide poisoning, following the case where it is suspected that two boaters died from such poisoning.

THE failure of Lock 12 on the Aylesbury Arm is surely indicative of a lack of lengthsmen and lock keepers who used to regularly walk the towpaths and flights, writes Kevin McNiff.

THE Vital maintenance to the 240 years old Dowley Gap Aqueduct on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal has successfully been finished following a three month project working on the grade II listed structure.

PAST readers of narrowboatworld may remember the much publicised and expensive launch of moving aggregate from Ryall, near Upton-on-Severn to the Cemex concrete plant via the Severn.

A NEW venture for Canal & River Trust is a habitat enhancement scheme for the Lune Aqueduct on the Lancaster Canal.