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Income for Canal & River Trust

THERE is a lot more money than has been suggested by your contributors, there is a lot more that the £39m put on the table by the Government, writes John Dodwell.

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Published: 18 January 2012

Plaque to prevent drownings

THREE men have died in the Ouse after jumping from a pub balcony, so a plaque has been erected to warn of the danger.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Work party week-end

A TOTAL of 12 volunteers, members of the Birmingham Navigations Canal Society, joined with work party organiser Mike Rolfe and took advantage of the stunning sunshine on Saturday 14th January, writes Brian Holmes.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Actors to encourage volunteers

ACTORS are now being used to encourage people to become volunteer lock keepers.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Hope for money from hydro power

THERE is the hope of money from a  proposed hydro-electric scheme to help the restoration of Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Fisherman dies at Cromwell Lock

A FISHERMAN has died and another is in hospital after their boat overturned at Cromwell Lock on the Trent.

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Published: 16 January 2012

Cannot be measurable

WHILE wishing to thank John Dodswell (narrowboatworld 08-01-12) for responding to my missive about the AIMS of Canal & River Trust, I would want to challenge a little of what is written, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 14 January 2012

Canal & River Trust in doubt

WE HAVE discovered that the new waterways charity, Canal & River Trust, will not come into being in April as promised, and there are serious doubts that it will ever come into being at all.

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Published: 14 January 2012

Waterways are for boats

HERE we go again, John Dodwell is a boater, and tells us however canals are not just for boats—actually that's exactly their original purpose.

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Published: 14 January 2012

Towpath tent burglars

A TENT erected on the towpath of the Ouse in York housed four suspected burglars.

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Published: 13 January 2012

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