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Another Devizes drowning

THE body of a 44 years old man was discovered in the Kennet & Avon canal in Devizes on Friday morning, the third in the past few months.

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Published: 21 April 2014

A little unfair?

A CORONER has ordered Canal & River Trust to take action over a footbridge over the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Skipton where a man slipped and suffered a fatal fall on the ice on the bridge.

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Published: 21 April 2014

The residents of Bath

TAKING a cruise along the Avon at Bath, our Alan Tilbury had chance to photograph the 'residents' of the city on the Kennet & Avon Canal, with this one having its licence expired last December.

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Published: 21 April 2014

Boat hung-up in L&L lock

A NARROWBOAT was hung-up in a Johnson's Hill Lock near Chorley on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, as the pound emptied.

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Published: 21 April 2014

More charges from CaRT?

FOLLOWING alteration of its ‘General Terms and Conditions for Boat Licences', will Canal & River Trust (CaRT) start charging for using the Anderton Lift, Ribble Link and Standedge Tunnel? Asks Allan Richards.

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Published: 21 April 2014

Cruisers are cruisers

A NUMBER of contributors have complained recently about being regarded and treated in the same way (that is, being sanctioned in various unwelcome ways by CaRT) as continuous cruisers, despite having a registered home mooring, writes Suzanne MacLeod.

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Published: 17 April 2014

New Chesterfield Canal footbridge


THE deck of Constitution Hill Bridge was fitted this month over the Chesterfield Canal just below Morrison's at Mill Green in Staveley.
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Published: 17 April 2014

Contradictory moorings signs removed

IT WAS our Keith Gudgin who pointed out the contradictory mooring signs at Fazeley Junction on the Coventry Canal, (Ambiguous visitor moorings) which have now been removed.

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Published: 17 April 2014

Liverpool Link closed

THE Link from the Leeds & Liverpool Canal into Liverpool Docks cannot be opened for Easter for navigation owing to contractor's material dumped on Stanley Dock bridge, making it unsafe.

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Published: 17 April 2014

Comment—No winners

THERE have been no winners in the long drawn out Pillings Lock Marina fiasco, with both the marina and Canal & River Trust suffering monetary losses, and particularly terrible publicity in the case of the Trust.

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Published: 16 April 2014

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