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Chesterfield Canal Trust Restoration Appeal

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust spent over £85,000 during 2016 on the restoration of the canal, done by its volunteer Work Party.
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Published: 02 January 2017

'Dancing Duck' back home

IT WAS ten years ago that the narrowboat the Dancing Duck was built as a hire boat at Tooley's Boatyard on the Oxford Canal in Banbury, but lack of space meant it had to be moored elsewhere.

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Published: 02 January 2017

Problem for Bulbourne development

THOUGH the minutes of Marsworth Parish Council meetings show that planning is progressing well for the redevelopment of Bulbourne Yard on the summit with Aylesbury Vale DC and Bucks CC, there is a problem.

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Published: 02 January 2017

Braving the New Year downpour

BOTH the waterways and their towpaths were virtually deserted on New Years Day, with the exception of boaters on the Cam in Cambridge.

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Published: 02 January 2017

The end is nigh?

I BELIEVE that 2017 will mark an end to leisure boating as we have known it, writes Martin Brooks.

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Published: 02 January 2017

Takes advantage of Pontcysyllte tourists

THE Pontcysyllte Aqueduct gaining World Heritage Site status has been a blessing to trip boat operator Peter Jones and his two narrowboats.

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Published: 01 January 2017

EA should make sure rules are practical

If the Environment Agency (EA) is to make rules they should ensure they are intra vires (they have the authority to do so), reasonable and practical, writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 30 December 2016

EA court action boats now at Teddington

OUR regular walk on Christmas Day takes us to Teddington Lock and across the river to a very amenable pub in Teddington where the first pint was free this year! Writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 29 December 2016

EA a law unto itself

REGARDING your comment about the Environment Agency (EA) and its complete disregard for the [mooring] rules, this is no surprise to me whatsoever, writes Paul Jenkins.

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Published: 29 December 2016

Email: Pleased he was jailed

I was most pleased to read that one of the youths who attacked that teenager on the [Stourbridge Canal] towpath had been jailed.

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Published: 29 December 2016

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