THE Environment Agency has admitted that pressure from environmental groups to safeguard flowers, mussels and water voles is to blame for the lack of dredging that was mainly responsible for the catastrophic flooding of its rivers.
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ANOTHER man, over twice the legal driving limit has ended his life in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Blackburn.
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IN ANSWER to your correspondent David Davis questioning if the Canal & River Trust would cope if it took over the Environment Agency rivers, the answer is a definite no, writes Ian Waters.
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THE collapsed embankment on the Mon & Brec Canal has been found to be a major problem, and as such the waterway will be closed until the middle of April at the earliest Canal & River Trust first told, but now it states it will be late March.
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IN A draft proposal, Derbyshire County Council has outlined massive support for the restoration of the Chesterfield Canal, coming as a great boost for the Chesterfield Canal Trust after the HS2 problems.
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THIS year the Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust has again teamed up with the Norbury village community and the Junction Inn to jointly organise the annual May Bank Holiday Canal Festival, writes John Myers.
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THE mobile workshop, where engineers and the like attend to broken down boats, is now in operation as a mobile workshop from Glasson Basin at Lancaster has now commenced.
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The Environment Agency have been very much in the news in recent days, regarding their management of flooding rivers. Their lack of dredging on the Parrett in Somerset has come under particular scrutiny, and the Thames between Oxford and London has flooded in many places, writes David Davis.
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A NEW venture for the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stone is a floating market that will be held over a length of the towpath side of the waterway.
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