THE Shropshire Union Canal Society Hit Squad descended on the hamlet of Maesbury on Wednesday 23rd June to repair some of the very well used mooring rings and to install a new access gate to enable the canoes to be transported to the canal edge by a slightly easier route, Paul Mills writes.
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THE latest complaint about the lack of work by the Environment Agency on the River Great Ouse is from a former controller who complains it badly needs maintenance.
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IT WILL be a past, present and future theme this weekend (26th and 27th June) at the Tom Rolt Centenary Rally at Tower Wharf, Chester.
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A LENGTH of towpath on the Montgomery Canal will be officially opened this week as a cycleway that 'forms a small but significant part of a leisure route linking the heartlands of Powys with the shores of Cardigan Bay at Aberystwyth'.
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IF YOU are cruising the Weaver don't expect those mechanised lock gates to swing open gracefully for you to pass through.
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A SMALL tasks team of six members of the Shropshire Union Canal Society met up at Tower Wharf at Chester and set about some enhancement and refurbishment work.
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THERE has been little interest in Red Bull office opening hours on the Trent & Mersey Canal.
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IT WAS marvellous to hear that Alan Tilbury's MP, unprompted, will ask a parliamentary question regarding the waterways minister's plans for BW (Piling on the pressure, 19th June 2010), writes Allan Richards.
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A CHEF admitted killing a swan on the River Great Ouse at Bedford, just missing going to jail.
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SO BRITISH Waterways is mounting a series of canal events to get bikers to slow down on towpaths. That should do it, or is it like holding firework events in Afghanistan and expecting the Taliban to attend and be converted to the peaceful use of explosives, writes Chip Smith.
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