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Email: Crossing locks in an emergency

I passed through Henhurst Lock last week, and with the bottom gates of the lock opened and closed by a windlass operated gear and quadrant, leaves plenty of room between the gates and the road bridge for a plank bridge.

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Published: 19 July 2012

Horses at the museum

THE early days of canals will be celebrated at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port with the Horses At Work.

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Published: 19 July 2012

Council overrules CART

DURING last year the then British Waterways took it upon itself to ban swimming from Sparth Reservoir near Marsden on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

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Published: 18 July 2012

Floating market for Olympics

BUSINESS boaters have taken advantage of CART's offer of moorings on the Regents Canal, and will be offering their wares at Mile End.

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Published: 18 July 2012

Email: Gone mad again

Has Elf and Safety gone mad again?
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Published: 18 July 2012

Dangers of flooding rivers

STILL another boater had to be rescued from the Avon when his boat was caught on the flooded river.

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Published: 18 July 2012

Thames Olympic restrictions

THOUGH the Thames is not being used for any Olympic sport, the Environment Agency is closing part of it to safeguard a nearby lake where activities are taking place.

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Published: 18 July 2012

Sanitary station wrecked

THE sanitary station at the junction with Nottingham Canal and the Trent is now closed.

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Published: 16 July 2012

Chuggers to be controlled

A REVIEW, commissioned by the Government, will recommend major changes to the way charities are run, and call for more powers to control face-to-face fund-raisers, known as chuggers.

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Published: 16 July 2012

'Corrie' cuts canal scene

VIEWERS will not be seeing the scene where a body is being pulled out of the Rochdale Nine, as it has been cut.

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Published: 16 July 2012

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