IF YOU look on the Canal & River Trust's web site it's full of references to wildlife and how CaRT goes about its business whilst doing its best for the local flora and fauna, writes Ralph Freeman.
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THE Peak Forest Canal was closed again today (Thursday) and is now awaiting an engineer's report as to what repairs are needed.
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AS THE furore continues unabated about the increasing numbers of cyclists travelling at excessive speeds along the towpaths, I started to read some of the available on-line documentation, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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THE weed, floating pennywort, is causing great problems on the Grand Western Canal, with boaters unable to navigate in some places and a hire boat company refusing to use it.
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I AM at present moored in Birmingham by Sheepcote Street Bridge. My wife and I were returning from a very pleasant afternoon libation at The Malt House when we heard the familiar ting-ting, 'scuse me, get out of the way! Writes Ray Watkins.
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THE period that boaters can now stay in Liverpool after using the link has been reduced from 14 days to seven days, Canal & River Trust has decided.
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THE Nene at Northampton will take on an entirely different outlook over the next few years with Northampton University building a new water-side campus.
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THE development company Stoford Living wanted to turn the Grade II listed Boat Gauging House at Tipton on the BCN into homes, but its plan failed.
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THE problems at Banbury are no different from other ‘honeypot', sites with regard to liveaboards, let alone continuous moorers, writes Martin Howes.
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KEITH is of course right to say that something needs to be done about the sort of behaviour he has encountered, writes Martin Cox.
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