I AMAZES me how so many boats can be caught on the cill in locks and thus sunk, writes James Henry.
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In the time that CaRT have faffed about with this culvert which has collapsed, [Lancaster Canal] they could have engaged a gang of ground workers and hand-dug the old culvert out.
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A COUPLE had a terrible experience at Haywood Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal on Tuesday. Two thugs were speeding in an inflatable at an estimated speed of 15 to 20mph when a boater took a picture of them.
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A FESTIVAL is scheduled on the Calder & Hebble Navigation this week-end, at Brighouse, in the form of a Canal, Beer and Music Festival.
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OUR Allan Richards has discovered that in addition to the 52,000 defects that Canal & River Trust admits on the waterways, there were 12,000 more, that had to take priority so were missed off the calculation, and tells us:
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THE Canal & River Trust has now engaged a telemarketing company that will con you into becoming a regular Friends donor, should you fall for applying for 'free information' that is nothing more than a ruse, as Allan Richards explains:
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THOUGH it is now over a month since the closure of the Rufford Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, cutting off access to the Lancaster Canal, it is still not re-opened.
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THE re-opening of the closed Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Lock 24E will not take place today as advertised, but is delayed until tomorrow, Friday.
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Moored rurally on the Shroppie mid morning; took dog out for a wander just after we arrived.
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THE two old toll houses by the base of Anderton Boat Lift have been restored and refurbished so that visitors can experience what it was like to book a passage on the lift in its working days.
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