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Dangerous cills

There is no way that the Trust will put a notice at locks to say that it is dangerous to get the stern caught on the cill.

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Published: 02 February 2017

Keep a good look-out

I HAVE to fully agree with your writer, James Henry, concerning the sinking of boats in locks, writes Philip Drew.
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Published: 02 February 2017

Simple instruction will save sinkings

READING your news about the sunken boat on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation and how many had already sunk this year, led me to do a 'search', and I was amazed at the number, writes James Henry.

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Published: 02 February 2017

Swans shot at Windsor

DURING the past few days 'snipers' have been using swans on the Thames at Windsor as target practice shooting them in the head and neck.
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Published: 02 February 2017

Sunken boat at lock

BOATERS are asked to be aware of a sunken boat at Sir Frank Price Lock on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigations.

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Published: 02 February 2017

Peacocks don't swim

AN UNLUCKY  peacock discovered that it could not swim when it landed in the Stratford-on-Avon Canal near the city.

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Published: 01 February 2017

Less income for CaRT

THERE are two massive billboards by the Stratford-on-Avon Canal in the city that earn Canal & River Trust money, but being described as 'clutter', they are to go.

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Published: 01 February 2017

Towpath a no-go area

I EXPECT many saw your picture of the Grand Union Canal through Acocks Green in Birmingham and noticed all those visitors [on the towpath] that Canal & River Trust go on about, writes Melody Simms.

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Published: 01 February 2017

Massive work on the Montgomery

VOLUNTEERS of the Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) will be returning to the Montgomery Canal for more work on the restoration of the canal in Pant this week-end in one of its biggest work parties to date.

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Published: 01 February 2017

Fracking could affect canal restoration

THE restoration of the Chesterfield Canal could be affected by fracking—the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc. so as to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.

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Published: 01 February 2017

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