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Victor finds water, water, everywhere

THE heavens opened on Thursday with it pelting down with rain from the morning onwards leaving the small meandering Trent like this by the Trent & Mersey near Sandon.

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Published: 22 September 2018

Victor feels sorry for a couple

IT WAS 25 years ago that an Australian couple hired the then new narrowboat Angela from the Canal Cruising Co in Stone for their honeymoon.

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Published: 20 September 2018

Victor meets angry boaters

WITH so many boaters about means you obviously get to converse with more, and one of them was very angry indeed.

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Published: 17 September 2018

Victor finds it slow going

OUR latest forage up the Trent & Mersey has proven to be slow going.

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Published: 13 September 2018

Middlewich breach fake news back fires

THE media has seen straight through the fake news concerning the Middlewich breach.

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Published: 11 September 2018

Victor: Lying its way out of its responsibility

NO GENERAL updates I'm afraid until the end of the month, as we have gone boating, but I may tell a tale or two in the interim, and here's a very sorry tale now...

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Published: 09 September 2018

Spreading the farce

IN ADDITION to the BBC being taken in by the mis-information about the Middlewich Breach, others too have taken up the farce from Canal & River Trust, with John Coxon reporting.

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Published: 07 September 2018

Mercia celebrates its 10 years anniversary

IT WAS 10 years ago that Mercia Marina was transformed from a little-used fishing lake to a major tourist and leisure destination.

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Published: 07 September 2018

Want to learn about boat electrics?

IF YOU are keen to learn all about boat electrics, there is the opportunity later this month.

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Published: 07 September 2018

Still blaming boaters

ON A recent television news programme a spokesman for Canal & River Trust blatantly blamed boaters for the Middlewich breach, writes Tom Crossley.

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Published: 06 September 2018

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