A pregnant mare became caught in its tether as it went to drink out of the Nene near Northampton, having to be rescued by a specialist water rescue team as it could not get out.
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IT WOULD seem that no sooner does the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) open one part of its crumbling system than another failures occurs and an unscheduled stoppage takes place elsewhere, writes Allan Richards.
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THOUGH Canal & River Trust (CaRT) is against flooding London with moorings to pacify the various councils to help solve their housing problems, the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) opposes this and wants to increase moorings.
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WITH one culvert repaired and just two to go it seemed that the problem of failed culverts was being mastered, but there has been yet another culvert failure, again on the Shropshire Union Canal.
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MANY boaters despair of the multitude of stoppage notices put out by Canal & River Trust, with the bulk of no interest to them, but we are promised that all will change on the 9th December.
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I have just skimmed through the London Assembly Report on moorings which was forwarded by the GLA to members of the London Waterways Commission, writes Del Brenner.
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THE damaged culvert under the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Rishton has now been repaired with the waterway again open for navigation.
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THE search has been called off for the missing man after a body was found in a car pulled from the Avon at Evesham.
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AFTER a transformational five years period at the helm of the National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) David Fletcher has stepped down as chairman, and Mike Rodd has been elected to take over from him.
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THE fish-eating seal in the Severn, known as Keith, is doing well to evade capture, with all the efforts by the Mercia Inshore Search and Rescue to move it to the sea being in vain.
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