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Getting ready for the hire season

ONCE again Drifters Waterway Holidays and the Canal & River Trust are offering people the chance to try canal boating for free at 19 locations across England and Wales.

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Published: 21 November 2018

An environmentally-friendly bilge discharge filter

AT LAST ‘the world’s first truly environmentally-friendly bilge discharge filter’ has been invented.

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Published: 19 November 2018

No way José

THERE was definitely no way a marina in Manchester was accepting Ben Harratt's idea of a boat when he craned it in to berth it.

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Published: 19 November 2018

Where was £132m 'maintenance' being spent?

PETER SCOTT tells us he has made a complaint to Canal & River Trust in accordance with its Customer Complaints Policy & Process (2017), and writes:

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Published: 16 November 2018

Cyclists' general disregard for all and sundry

AFTER reading your recent article about cyclists' behaviour I thought I might add my observations, writes Tony Col.

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Published: 16 November 2018

Damaged bridge closes K&A

ONCE again Prison Bridge over the Kennet & Avon Canal in Devizes has been damaged and closed the waterway.

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Published: 16 November 2018

Thames swans starving

THE RSPCA is concerned that many swans are starving on the Thames.

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Published: 15 November 2018

The reason why

I AM one of those who have had little alternative but to get rid of my boat, thanks to having hardly anywhere to take it, writes Arnold Rhodes.

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Published: 15 November 2018

Leeds & Liverpool closed until New Year

NOTWITHSTANDING the rainfall over the past weeks, lack of water is closing the Leeds & Liverpool Canal until the New Year.

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Published: 14 November 2018

The answer to speeding towpath cyclists

The Times newspaper reports that the menace of speeding cyclists has now reached Bournemouth seafront, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 14 November 2018

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  • I don't believe it! tells Victor
  • Coventry Canal Basin to be sold
  • Marina in liquidation also owned hire company
  • Towpath walk raised £200,000
  • Boaters in limbo after marina forced to go into liquidation
  • Canal to be closed for a month
  • A new event at Banbury
  • Works not finished in time for Easter
  • Restrictions on the Rochdale Canal to save water
  • Possible boatyard for Oxford after 20 years
  • Four paddle failures already this month
  • De-wintering tips from River Canal Rescue
  • Smoke control comes into force for narrowboats in Bimingham
  • Three stoppages still ongoing
  • EA stops Bristol Floating Harbour funding
  • Braunston Customer Service Facility now closed
  • Marsworth Flight reopened
  • Stoppages on Rochdale and Tame Valley canals
  • Another paddle failure
  • Another broken paddle on the Rochdale Canal

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