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An inaccurate survey

THE Worcester Canal Group is asking people to take photographs of the wildlife on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal as a survey to ascertain what lives on the water,

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Published: 19 March 2018

Victor: The Middlewich Branch failure

YOU really have to feel sorry for the hire companies attempting to operate in this day and age on the waterways.

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Published: 18 March 2018

Middlewich Branch Breach

Middlewich Aqueduct goneTHE Canal & River Trust statement that there has been an embankment failure on the Middlewich Branch was an understatement!

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Published: 16 March 2018

Gongoozler: Mooring and signage

WALKING along towpaths I notice that there is often no standardisation of the signage to distinguish between short and longer term moorings.

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Published: 16 March 2018

Breach closes Middlewich Branch

AN EMBANKMENT failure on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal has closed the waterway.

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Published: 16 March 2018

Authorities damned for slow response to environmental disaster

IT WAS the end of January that the Lee saw its worst environmental disaster when engine oil was pumped into the waterway.

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Published: 16 March 2018

Mental Health Awareness training at RCR

IN ORDER to be able to more effectively support people with a suspected or diagnosed mental health condition, 14 staff from River Canal Rescue recently attended a one day Mental Health Awareness training course at its Stafford head office.

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Published: 16 March 2018

Participating in the survey

TODAY I received an invitation to participate in the latest CaRT Survey,writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 16 March 2018

Cruising the Foss

MOST boaters are unaware that in addition to the Ouse in York, the city has another navigable river.

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Published: 15 March 2018

Continuous cruisers have a code

In one way Charles Hoogkirk is correct in that there is no continuous cruising licence. The boater declares that he has no home mooring. However, he is incorrect by saying there is no identification on the actual licence. Those boaters who so declare have the code BW-65-007

Pete Earley

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Published: 15 March 2018

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