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A welcome to the Link

THE Canal & River Trust is now wanting volunteers to meet boaters as they arrive at Albert or Salthouse Docks after coming down the Liverpool Link.

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Published: 22 January 2015

Totally the wrong way round

WOULDN'T it make more sense to employ lengthsmen/lock keepers/engineering staff on a full time basis and outsource or use volunteers for the heritage/wildlife/environmental/PR/office jobs? Asks Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 21 January 2015

Thoughts on a tracker...

THE fitting of tracking devices is a double edged sword. The first is that I would find it an intrusion into my privacy, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 21 January 2015

Email: Be careful what you wish for

Before everybody starts getting excited about this idea [trackers in boats], which I thought was initially a tongue in cheek comment, think on about the really big project awaiting universally fitted trackers.

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Published: 21 January 2015

Make sure it's dry

BOATERS using damp wood and logs in their stoves could be risking a triple whammy including increased costs, stove damage and carbon monoxide poisoning, Rob McLean of the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) writes.

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Published: 21 January 2015

Start on the 'hole' repair

THE day after narrowboatworld (Still looking into the hole) stated that silence still surrounded  Canal & River Trust's closure of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Dutton, an update was eventually published.

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Published: 21 January 2015

Tracker must have conditions

I WOULD join you in having a tracker fitted but there would have to be conditions. It must not be the only thing that defines mooring times, distances travelled etc writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 21 January 2015

Should fit a tracker

I FULLY agree with Peter's suggestion that every licenced boat on the system should have a tracker fitted. To quote the words of a prime minister 'anyone who has a problem with that, has a problem'.

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Published: 20 January 2015

Lorry in Mongomery Canal

THOUGH we often have cars in our waterways, this time a loaded articulated lorry has overturned into the Montgomery Canal near Abermule.

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Published: 20 January 2015

Deterioration blamed for lock failure

AT LAST Canal & River Trust have blamed lack of maintenance as the reason for a lock failure on the Staffs & Worcs at Kinver.

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Published: 20 January 2015

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