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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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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SCOUT leaders were concerned at the amount of rubbish around the basin of the Staffs & Worcs Canal in Stourport so a troop had a day cleaning it up.
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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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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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THE Canal & River Trust statement that there has been an embankment failure on the Middlewich Branch was an understatement!
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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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AN EMBANKMENT failure on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal has closed the waterway.
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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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