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Festival this week-end

A FESTIVAL is scheduled on the Calder & Hebble Navigation this week-end, at Brighouse, in the form of a Canal, Beer and Music Festival.

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Published: 21 August 2015

12,000 more defects!

OUR Allan Richards has discovered that in addition to the 52,000 defects that Canal & River Trust admits on the waterways, there were 12,000 more, that had to take priority so were missed off the calculation, and tells us:

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Published: 21 August 2015

How low can CART sink?

THE Canal & River Trust has now engaged a telemarketing company that will con you into becoming a regular Friends donor, should you fall for applying for 'free information' that is nothing more than a ruse, as Allan Richards explains:

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Published: 20 August 2015

Ribble Link still closed

THOUGH it is now over a month since the closure of the Rufford Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, cutting off access to the Lancaster Canal, it is still not re-opened.

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Published: 20 August 2015

A day later

THE re-opening of the closed Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Lock 24E will not take place today as advertised, but is delayed until tomorrow, Friday.

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Published: 20 August 2015

Email: All quiet on the Shroppie

Moored rurally on the Shroppie mid morning; took dog out for a wander just after we arrived.

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Published: 19 August 2015

Toll houses restored

THE two old toll houses by the base of Anderton Boat Lift have been restored and refurbished so that visitors can experience what it was like to book a passage on the lift in its working days.

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Published: 19 August 2015

Pollution closes locks

THE pollution of the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigations by a fire at Hexthorpe has caused it to be closed.

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Published: 19 August 2015

MLC sets the matter straight

THERE has been a great deal of comment by various people regarding the boat belonging to Peter Demkiw that was burnt-out and the Middle Level Commissioners (MLC) part in this, and the Commissioners have responded, as Kelvin Alexander-Duggan writes:

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Published: 19 August 2015

Another on cill at Kegworth Deep

KEGWORTH Deep Lock claimed another victim last Thursday when another hire boat was 'caught' on the cill.
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Published: 17 August 2015

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