Despite very mixed weather over the weekend of 30th/31st January the Shropshire Union Canal Society had a good turnout of volunteers to its first work party of the year, writes Paul Mills.
RANGERS on the Grand Western Canal towpath are now spraying dog faeces with pink paint to try and combat the increasing problem of owners failing to clean up after their dogs.
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PLANNING permission for the controversial plans for the new marina at Soudley on the Shropshire Union Canal is still being withheld.
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THOUGH people have been warned to keep away from the Regent's Canal towpath after dark, the advice is being ignored, with dire consequences.
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FOR the first time in around 30 years, an otter has been seen in the Soar near Leicester.
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MANY boaters have been frozen-in recently, but one pair believe the best place to be stuck is Audlem.
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SUCH is the problem with the ever increasing number of boats moored on the Cam in Cambridge that Cambridge City Council is considering moving boats off part of the river.
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A NEW agreement will make it easier to maintain and repair Foxton Locks on the Grand Union Canal.
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BOATER Bernard Richardson, mooring on the Llangollen, now wishes he hadn't moored under a tree, as it fell and damanged his narrowboat.
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THE owner managed to escape from this narrowboat when it suddenly sank in the Lee near Bow Bridge at Bromley-by-Bow.
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