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New café at Devizes

WORK by volunteers of the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust, have meant there is now a new café at the Wharf in Devizes on the Kennet & Avon Canal.

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Published: 17 August 2012

Fixing the problems

HAVING first-hand knowledge of the problems of the Trent & Mersey Canal, contributor Ralph Freeman offers suggestions how they can be fixed to make life easier for boaters.

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Published: 17 August 2012

Join York flotilla

THE Festival of the Rivers that was cancelled earlier this year owing to high water levels on the Ouse is to be held instead later this month in York.

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Published: 16 August 2012

Horse drawn boat travels entire L&L

IT MUST have been with a sigh of relief that Sue Day finished her marathon trek with a horse drawn boat of the entire length of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from Leeds to Pier Head at Liverpool.

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Published: 16 August 2012

Walkers to help restoration

WITH the Wendover Arm Trust losing out on its big fund raising Wendover Festival this year, it is organising a sponsored walk to raise funds towards its further restoration.

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Published: 16 August 2012

The licence 'facts' disputed

A boater cruising the Leeds & Liverpool Canal disputes the claim made by Canal & River Trust concerning the number of unlicenced boats,  with Peter Ponting writing:

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Published: 16 August 2012

Email: Those Droitwich reeds

We felt exactly the same as Dave Bulbeck about the Droitwich canals experience. We too visited the canals this year and felt the lack of moorings.

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Published: 15 August 2012

Trust boat for Paralympics

THE Hungerford-based Bruce Trust which provides holidays for disabled people on the Kennet & Avon Canal is sending one of its boats on an 82 miles  journey to provide accommodation at the Paralympics for disabled visitors.

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Published: 15 August 2012

Cows or humans?

THEY seem to be a complaining lot as far as the Cam is concerned in Cambridge, with the latest being about the cows grazing where they have had rights for centuries.

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Published: 15 August 2012

Missing Labrador

One of my colleagues lives alongside the canal near Whitchurch, and on the 30th July his eight years old black Labrador went missing, writes Angela Baines.

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Published: 15 August 2012

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Latest

  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed
  • Long closure caused by building demolition
  • Just one puppy lived of three dumped on canal towpath
  • Could be a long stoppage at Kennet & Avon lock

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