CONTRACTORS to Canal & River Trust, we have discovered, are using the highly toxic chemical, Monsanto's Roundup to spray around locks.
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FIRE crews from all over the country are targeting boaters on the waterways this week as it is Boat Fire Safety Week.
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WHILST your website was closed down, I took the opportunity to look back at various writings, with particular interest to Victor Swift's comments concerning the two marinas in which we have moored, writes Donna Ferguson.
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AS PART of the Canal Festival on the Chesterfield Canal in Staveley, there will be a parade of illuminated boats tomorrow (Saturday 28th May).
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TWO boats caught on cills and sinking and a holed boat caused River Canal Rescue (RCR) to put its agreement with Canal & River Trust to the test when it rescued all three within 24 hours of the boats coming to grief.
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BRITISH Waterways Marinas Ltd (BWML) is to develop Pennington Wharf Marina on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Leigh.
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A WALK along the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (Mon & Brec) is being organised by St David's Hospice Care to raise funds for the charity.
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THOUGH it was five months ago that the floods caused havoc on the Rochdale Canal, the latest information from CaRT is that it still cannot give a date when the navigation will re-open.
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VICTOR wrote (Lots of walkers) which of course brings me to the fact that though each person may use the towpath time and time again, he or she can only by counted as one visitor. They cannot be a separate visitor each time they walk the path, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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WE ARE told that for one reason or another none of the following waterways were open for cruising last week-end.
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