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Email: Have to agree

I have to agree with James Harvey, what is wrong with these ecologists?
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Published: 01 January 2015

EA close Leicester Line

THE Environment Agency have closed the Leicester Line owing to pollution entering the waterway from adjoining land at Kibworth.

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Published: 01 January 2015

Foxton Museum reinvented

THE museum at Foxton Locks has closed for the winter and is to be transformed at a cost of £200,000 to become 'app-friendly' so people can be guided round using their mobile phones.

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Published: 31 December 2014

The Devil Shrimp?

WHAT will the ecologists call the next shrimp they find in our waters—the Devil Shrimp? Asks James Henry.

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Published: 31 December 2014

Panic over shrimp

FOR some while large non-native shrimps have been resident in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, but are spreading to rivers, the latest being the Douglas, and are causing great concern amongst the ecologists.

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Published: 31 December 2014

Led to former volunteers

THE discovery of a stone inscription on a canal lock in Newbury on the Kennet & Avon Canal has led 40 years later to some of the volunteers who restored it, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 29 December 2014

Car in Kegworth Flood Lock

ON CHRISTMAS Eve a car went a little too far when parking in the spaces at Kegworth Flood Lock on the Soar, and went straight into the river.

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Published: 28 December 2014

Another Christmas drowning

ANOTHER man has lost his life in a waterway, this time the Worcester & Birmingham Canal in Worcester.

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Published: 28 December 2014

Recruitment for the Grantham Canal

THE satisfaction of seeing a job done well is a pleasing experience for all of us. Add to that the knowledge that you are bringing back to life part of our National Heritage is indeed very gratifying. writes Steve Swann.

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Published: 27 December 2014

A sorry tale...

EARLY this year Patrick and Elaine Cordan escalated a complaint to CaRT with regard to what they felt to be unfair enforcement action having been taken against them, having received a pre CC1, a CC1 and a CC2, (enforcement notices) this during one of the wettest winters on record, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 26 December 2014

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