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What a bloody cheek!

I UNDERSTAND that CaRT have launched an emergency fundraising campaign to pay for the repairs to the breach at Middlewich. I say what a bloody cheek! Writes John Coxon.

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Published: 22 March 2018

Out comes the begging bowl again!

AS WAS predicted by narrowboatworld, Canal & River Trust has brought out the begging bowl again, expecting the public to pay for the breach on the Middlewich Branch.

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Published: 22 March 2018

Got on with the job

I HAVE just seen the page where Canal & River Trust demeans itself by asking for money to repair the breach at Middlewich, writes, James Henry.

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Published: 22 March 2018

GRP still feeling the pinch

IT WAS in 2014 when the boat building bubble burst, with boat builder after boat builder going out of business.

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Published: 22 March 2018

Now it's a sink hole!

THE Breach on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal is now being described as a sink hole!

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Published: 21 March 2018

Lee Navigation open at last

THE oil spill in the lower section of the Lee Navigation has been virtually cleaned-up, with the navigation now open.

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Published: 21 March 2018

Filling drained canal to allow boats out

A DAM is to be installed across the canal below the breach in the MIddlewich Branch to allow the stranded boats to be removed.

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Published: 21 March 2018

Covering all eventualities

MANY scenarios meet the teams from River Canal Rescue when they attend a problem, which means the training to tackle them has to be kept up to date.

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Published: 21 March 2018

More anti-drunk barriers in Manchester

IN RESPONSE to the call for more fencing after Charlie Pope drowned in the Rochdale Nine in Manchester, a temporary barrier has been erected to get people to use a footbridge instead of a lock to cross the waterway.

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Published: 19 March 2018

Middlewich canal 'dredged'

THE Middlewich Guardian would have us believe that the Middlewich Branch has been dredged by the aqueduct over the Wheelock which is why it is empty!

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Published: 19 March 2018

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