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The Candy Boat cometh

WITH the start of the boating season approaching and more people around, the Candy Boat is back in business after its winter sojourn.
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Published: 07 March 2016

Boat Safety Scheme should be adopted

THE All Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group have expressed concern at the Lake District National Park's decision not to adopt the Boat Safety Scheme following the Windermere carbon monoxide (CO) tragedy. (No boat safety scheme.)

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Published: 07 March 2016

Caen Hill hole being repaired

IT WAS five months ago, last October, when vandals opened lock gates causing damage to the towpath of the Caen Hill Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal, and repair is at last underway.

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Published: 07 March 2016

Finds it incomprehensible

HAVING read with interest the views of Maffi Oxford and Keith Gudgeon 'The ice and Wind problem', I do find it incomprehensible what Maffi Oxford tells, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 07 March 2016

Harecastle closed

HARECASTLE Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal was closed on Friday owing to problems with its rescue boat, that would not start.

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Published: 07 March 2016

The ice and wind problem

IT SEEMS to me some will read and decide what they think I said rather than understand what I actually wrote, writes Maffi Oxford.

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Published: 04 March 2016

Development 'worst cock-up in years'

THE Old Oak Common regeneration scheme by the Grand Union Canal has been described as being 'London's worst cock-up in 50 years'!

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Published: 04 March 2016

Body closes St Pancras Lock

ST. PANCRAS Lock, on the Grand Union Canal was closed yesterday and the area cordoned off after the discovery of a body in the waterway.

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Published: 04 March 2016

Foxton hoping for more visitors

THE re-opening of the Boiler House Museum at Foxton Locks it is hoped will increase visitors to the locks this year.

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Published: 03 March 2016

Stay-put in bad conditions

IN RESPONSE to Maffi Oxford stating that ice does not damage blacking, (Ice and blacking), here is a picture of my bow showing the ice damage to my blacking sustained during last winter cruising through thin ice for just under two miles, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 03 March 2016

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