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More Buckingham Canal restoration

AYLESBURY Vale District Council has now given planning permission for the restoration of a stretch of the Buckingham Canal at Bourton Meadow.

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Published: 13 May 2012

Possible manslaughter charge

HAVING read the comments with regard to the newly installed hazard to our heads at Falling Sands Lock I think it pertinent to make comment, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 12 May 2012

Another CART committee

THE latest committee for the Canal & River Trust (CART) is the Volunteering Advisory Committee.

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Published: 11 May 2012

Leicester Arm opens today

AFTER many weeks of closure and restrictions, the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is open again to boating today (Friday).

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Published: 11 May 2012

Completely lost the plot

WHEN I first saw the picture of the RSJ that had been installed at neck height on the Staffs & Worcs lock, I thought it must be a mistake, writes James Henry.

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Published: 10 May 2012

No new canal link

THE proposed plans for a new canal link of the Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal to Dymock have fallen through.

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Published: 10 May 2012

Off with our heads

HERE is a picture of the latest Health & Safety lunacy—a hand rail support designed to chop off boaters heads!

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Published: 10 May 2012

Quieter exhaust water-lock

A NEW design of exhaust water-lock has been produced by Vetus, that is claimed to result in half the normal noise level.

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Published: 09 May 2012

Email: Sharing locks

I second Mike Relac's criticism of your piece on the Grand Union Situation. Arbitrary conclusions based on photographs can often be wrong.

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Published: 09 May 2012

Lots of camels?

IT WOULD would appear to me that CART is sprouting committees like my lawn sprouts weeds. I haven't bothered to put a number to them although I dare say someone could, but there does seem to be rather a lot, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 09 May 2012

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