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The end is nigh?

I BELIEVE that 2017 will mark an end to leisure boating as we have known it, writes Martin Brooks.

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Published: 02 January 2017

Takes advantage of Pontcysyllte tourists

THE Pontcysyllte Aqueduct gaining World Heritage Site status has been a blessing to trip boat operator Peter Jones and his two narrowboats.

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Published: 01 January 2017

EA should make sure rules are practical

If the Environment Agency (EA) is to make rules they should ensure they are intra vires (they have the authority to do so), reasonable and practical, writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 30 December 2016

EA court action boats now at Teddington

OUR regular walk on Christmas Day takes us to Teddington Lock and across the river to a very amenable pub in Teddington where the first pint was free this year! Writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 29 December 2016

EA a law unto itself

REGARDING your comment about the Environment Agency (EA) and its complete disregard for the [mooring] rules, this is no surprise to me whatsoever, writes Paul Jenkins.

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Published: 29 December 2016

Email: Pleased he was jailed

I was most pleased to read that one of the youths who attacked that teenager on the [Stourbridge Canal] towpath had been jailed.

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Published: 29 December 2016

Minshull Lock repaired

ANYONE who uses the Middlewich Arm of the Shropshire Union Canal will be pleased to hear that the new bottom gates at Minshull Lock now hold water, and the new paddle gear is much easier to work, writes Linda Andrews.

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Published: 27 December 2016

Idiotic EA moorings enforcement

With reference to your article on 23rd December regarding new arrangements for the Environment Agency (EA) Thames visitor moorings, perhaps there are several points visiting boaters might like to take into account before swallowing this latest piece of idiotic abrogation of responsibility by the EA, writes David Mercer.

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Published: 27 December 2016

Jailed for canal bridge attack

A TEENAGER who was part of a gang that attacked a young man who was sheltering under a canal bridge has been jailed for three years.

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Published: 27 December 2016

David: Bargees? Travellers?

THE chutzpah of the self-styled National Bargees Travellers Association never ceases to amaze me. Its latest semi-literate outpouring really takes the biscuit and I feel that some rebuttal is called for.

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Published: 26 December 2016

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Latest

  • Deeply regret but illness causes lack of publication
  • Flood warning on the Trent
  • Water, water, everywhere
  • Still no paddles for lock on Glasson Branch
  • More problems at Penkridge Lock
  • 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
  • CafĂ© 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

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