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Floating workboats?

WE ARE told that there is to be a new floating mooring pontoon on the Macclesfield Canal between bridges 35 and 36 in Macclesfield.

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Published: 26 March 2015

De-humanising canals

CANALS and the river navigations of the UK, were mostly built at a time when ‘steady' was a brisk walking pace and ‘very fast' was the speed of a galloping horse, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 26 March 2015

Car still in canal

THOUGH it was hoped to remove the car from the Rochdale Canal in Manchester, it is still there, though hoped to be removed later today.

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Published: 26 March 2015

Legality of Terms and Conditions

I HAVE been involved in a number of Charity organisations, including being chairperson of two charities, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 26 March 2015

More at Mercia

IN ADDITION to its many events, Mercia Marina is launching  a new programme of monthly food and craft markets starting on Easter Monday.

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Published: 25 March 2015

New 'Ombudsman' scheme?

SOME nine months after narrowboatworld revealed that the Waterways Ombudsman Scheme operated by Canal & River Trust (CaRT) was a complete sham (Waterways Ombudsman Committee scrapped) a Press release will be made, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 25 March 2015

Historian 'ashamed' of Oxford Canal

THE Waterway Historian Mark Davies told actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales that he felt 'ashamed' to welcome people to Isis Lock during the filming of their Great Canal Journeys television documentary.

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Published: 25 March 2015

Bridge keepers to go

FIRST it was the demise of lock keepers that have been taken over by unpaid volunteers, and now the trend of Canal & River Trust is to get rid of its mechanised bridge keepers.

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Published: 25 March 2015

Head of Enterprise

SINCE Richard Parry took over at Canal & River Trust, there has been an upsurge in appointments, and people being promoted.

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Published: 25 March 2015

April Fool?

APRIL Fool's Day seems to have come a bit early for Canal & River Trust writes David Hymers.
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Published: 25 March 2015

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