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Plank Lane Bridge still closed

PLANK Lane Bridge on the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is still closed with a single opening each day at 2pm.

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Published: 17 August 2016

Email: Need more boaters

I can commiserate with the boaters who had the broad locks to themselves through Leicester, as I have done it many times and only managed to get someone sharing once.

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Published: 15 August 2016

Testing lock beams

WITH the failure of balance beams, there is a rudimentary testing of balance beams (and lock gates) in a simple process that I suspect most boaters do subconsciously when they operate the lock, writes Ralph Freeman, and suggests:

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Published: 15 August 2016

'Times' blow to the Trust

A PIECE in the country's leading newspaper, The Times, complaining about Canal & River Trust's waterways, will come as a blow to the Trust as it does its best to cultivate the newspapers.

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Published: 15 August 2016

Vandals wreck 'Monty' lock

A LOCK on the Montgomery Canal has been put completely out of action, it is believed by vandals.

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Published: 15 August 2016

Better in Leicester

I SPOKE at length to a lady called Claire on her narrowboat Ursa Major, who  I met in Loughborough, when getting onto our boat. She is a resident in Derby and keeps her boat at Mercia Marina in Willington, writes Paul Lillie.

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Published: 15 August 2016

K&A worth the risk

GERRY VARLEY asks whether it is 'worth the risk' of boating on the Kennet & Avon. I would emphatically say yes—it's a beautiful canal, writes David Williams.

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Published: 12 August 2016

Waterways Ombudsman issues Annual Report

THE Waterways Ombudsman, Andrew Walker, and the Waterways Ombudsman Committee, have issued their combined Annual Reports for 2015/16.

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Published: 12 August 2016

K&A won't be open

YOU boaters lined-up at Fobney Lock on the Kennet & Avon Canal ready for it to re-open this morning (Friday) as promised by Canal & River Trust are going to be unlucky—for oh no it won't!

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Published: 12 August 2016

Email: 60ft on Huddersfield Broad Canal

HAVE just read the comment that a narrowboat over 57ft cannot navigate Huddersfield Broad.
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Published: 11 August 2016

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