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Last breach boat finally rescued

THE last boat left stranded when the Middlewich Branch breached was removed on Friday.

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Published: 25 June 2018

Help wanted to transport boat

HELP is wanted to transport a boat to a festival that has been restored after being found abandoned.

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Published: 25 June 2018

Brownlow Bridge being repaired

WORK has started on the repair the damaged Brownlow Bridge over the Grand Union Canal at Leighton Buzzard.

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Published: 25 June 2018

Victor: Scotland has its bridge problems too

THOUGH Cart swing and lift bridge failures have been most prominent on narrowboatworld recently, Scotland doesn't do so well with its bridges either!

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Published: 24 June 2018

CaRT's latest caper!

WE SHOULD imagine that most of you boaters are wondering what will be the next CaRT caper for getting rid of our money—it's a good one!

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Published: 22 June 2018

The other Middlewich breach

IT IS not generally known, but in the past there was another breach of the Middlewich Branch—then known as the New Cut—but what a difference in their repairs, as Pam Pickett explains:

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Published: 22 June 2018

Why was the breach left to the emergency services?

WHEN the culvert collapsed at Melling on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal it was the emergency services that attempted to stay the flow from the breach.

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Published: 21 June 2018

The 'all or nothing' approach

CLOSING a canal for only half a mile but effectively closing the whole of the canal is but an extension of the 'all or nothing' approach we have seen for many years. writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 21 June 2018

Will they roll it on?

I WAS aghast to read that contractors had closed a mile of canal for the day to attend to trees, writes Helen Cripps.

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Published: 21 June 2018

H&S rules mis-interpreted

ACCORDING to the article 'Health & Safety gets worse', The health and safety regulations are getting even more of a hindrance to boating, writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 21 June 2018

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