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Man dies in Ouse

A MAN died in the River Great Ouse near St Neots on New Year's Day when his car left the road and plunged into the river.

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Published: 05 January 2015

IWA an irrelevance

THE IWA, telling it the way CaRT want it told! It stole our seats, now it tries to steal our slogan! Writes Martin Brooks.

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Published: 05 January 2015

Yesterday's organisation

I READ with some interest the piece 'IWA pinch our slogan!' from Allan Richards. It reminded me of a comment by the late Mandy Rice Davies who died last month. Which I shall paraphrase as 'the IWA would do that wouldn't they!' Writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 05 January 2015

It's a funny old game!

IF YOU are something of a football fan—and you can cast your mind back to the late 80's early 90's. You might well remember 'Saint and Greavsie' on television, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 03 January 2015

IWA pinch our slogan!

THE Inland Waterways Association (IWA) difficulty in differentiating itself from Canal & River Trust (CaRT) may be drawing to a close, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 03 January 2015

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

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