IT IS not often that our committee meetings are accompanied by a bottle of Champagne, but at last week's meeting of the Regents Canal Conservation Area Committee in Camden Town, glasses of bubbly were raised to celebrate the refusal of the planning application for the Hawley Wharf Market development beside the Regents Canal, reports Del Brenner.
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Your correspondent David Hymers has misled himself and all readers, as it is the smaller Drayton Reservoir, home to fishermen and yachtsmen and rarely used to top up the canals, which is brim full writes David Collins.
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A RECENT survey is promoting untrue information about the state of boating on the waterways.
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THOUGH £90,000 has just been spent on the Staff & Worcs Canal, alas not on leaking lock gates for the waterway but to improve the towpath.
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BETTER known for its Broads, Norfolk actually had a canal, that volunteers hope to eventually restore.
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In concert with previously expressed concerns over Two Chairs Hales, it suddenly occurred to me that we now have an individual who heads up not only a Public Corporation (British Waterways) but is now a director of a private limited company Canal & River Trust, writes Graham Freeman.
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THE Shropshire Union Canal has been closed all day today (Thursday) owing to a tree falling over the waterway.
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BOATER Joseph Griffin was in shock when, moving rubbish from the bow of his boat, he discovered a human head.
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Whilst everyone is frustrated at the lack of water, which has been exacerbated by the lack of maintenance leading to unnecessary water leakage, why not try to salvage some good from a bad situation?
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THERE have been many suggestions for getting the Derby Canal over the Derwent in Derby, with the latest being a boat lift to hoist the boats out of the restored canal into the river.
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