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Helped save the Oxford

ROSE Skinner, who along with her late husband Jack, who helped save the Oxford Canal from closure, has died

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Published: 29 June 2012

Finding work for volunteers

IT WOULD seem that volunteers are not wanted for work after all, but work is wanted for the volunteers, who seem totally redundant.

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Published: 29 June 2012

Fire disaster averted at Barton Marina

A FIRE in a narrowboat at Barton Marina on the Trent & Mersey Canal, moored closely to others, could have had serious consequences if the fire had spread.

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Published: 29 June 2012

Email: Another disagrees

I have to disagree with Adrian Stott on the subject of 'Leaving the gates open'. First off what the old boaters used to do is irrelevant. Yes it worked for them but boating today is not the same.

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Published: 29 June 2012

Weaver bridge to be saved

NOTWITHSTANDING the failure of British Waterways to do anything to save Sutton Swing Bridge over the Weaver, a council has stepped in to save it suffering its death by traffic.

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Published: 29 June 2012

Memories are made of this

THERE just has to be one, and I followed it! Writes Pam Pickett.
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Published: 28 June 2012

Thames cable car opens

THE new cable car service across the Thames in East London opens today (Thursday) carrying people in its pods.

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Published: 28 June 2012

CART trading subsidary

IN A Parliamentary statement reported in Hansard in June, Canal and River Trading CIC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canal & River Trust, which apparently has to be set up according to Charity Law,  writes Martin Howes.

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Published: 28 June 2012

Email: 'Locked horns'

I have 'locked horns' with Sir Adrian Stott in the past over leaving lock gates open, for he has been promoting this for many years in one media or another.

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Published: 28 June 2012

Don't leave them open

I must say I was amazed at you including that about leaving lock gates open from Adrian Stott, as he has had this bee in his bonnet for years back in Waterways World, writes Jimmy Lockwood.

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Published: 28 June 2012

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