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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

Lock beams should be inspected urgently

ON THE matter of the rotten beams, it seems to me that it's not something that would happen overnight undetected, writes, Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 11 August 2016

Kennet & Avon Canal worth the risk?

WITH the help of friends, after many years, we will be able to cruise the Kennet & Avon Canal in early September, the last remaining major waterway that we have not been on, writes Gerry Varley.

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Published: 11 August 2016

Email: Oxford banning orders

It really is a 'sledge hammer to crack a nut' with the proposed banning orders regarding boats and the towpath in Oxford.

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Published: 11 August 2016

Balance beams allowed to rot

THE broken lock beam yesterday on the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is the third in a week!

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Published: 11 August 2016

W&B lock bulging

THERE is a warning issued concerning Stoke Top Lock (2) on the Birmingham & Worcester Canal.

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Published: 11 August 2016

More doubtful statistics

ON your [Canal & river Trust] website you state that there are 1,500 locks and you build around 180 locks a year for a total cost of two million pounds—equating to roughly £12,000 per lock, wrote Patrick Cull in an email to the Trust.

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Published: 10 August 2016

Boating dangers of fumes

THE advice just given by various authorities including the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) 'If you can smell exhaust fumes in your boat, don't ignore this sign that there could be a potential killer in the cabin', is not as obvious as might by realised.

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Published: 10 August 2016

K&A closed—by a boat

THE Kennet & Avon Canal is closed at Fobney Lock (105) South of Reading, but this time not the fault of Canal & River Trust.

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Published: 10 August 2016

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