THE failure of the gates at Slaters Lowest Lock (76) at Miles Platting in Manchester has caused a further part of the Rochdale Canal to be closed on Monday.
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A LORRY has taken off the parapet of a bridge on the Bridgewater Canal, ignoring restriction signs.
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I REFER to your recent article concerning the picture of an otter taking a pike on the Lancaster Canal (allegedly). The Pike Angler's Club (PAC) have the fishing rights on the canal and I, as fishery manager, run the fishing on behalf of PAC, writes Eric Edwards.
The meaning of the word 'guidelines' has been perverted. A guide (or guideline) is essentially guidance.
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A FURTHER dimension to the current concerns over the apparent increasing number of speeding cyclists on the newly resurfaced towpaths, is the yet further imbalance in the rights of the boater versus what seems like everyone else, writes John Howard.
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WE ARE surely all aware of the dreadful flooding of the Somerset Levels, brought about to a large extent by the failure of the Environmental Agency to dredge the rivers that drain the Levels, but work cannot be completed until the water voles are first moved.
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I AM going to seek legal advice on a hypothetical situation, ie that I hired a boat, and when mooring it was struck by a speeding cyclist who then made off, writes Martin Brooks.
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THE picture of an otter on a Facebook page feasting on a pike in the Lancaster Canal drove anglers crazy last week with it getting 35,000 hits—many from anglers wanting the otter killed, so CaRT removed the picture—but here it is!
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FOLLOWING the recent Hatton press conference a glaring anomaly has come to light that suggests that high ranking officials of CaRT have either weird moral values or they have been subjected to an obligatory 'Common Sense Bypass' operation on joining the organisation, writes Ralph Freeman.
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THERE was a somewhat heated discussion at the Press Briefing at Hatton on Friday, when I attempted to get Canal & River Trust Chief Executive, Richard Parry to agree to take action against the cyclists using the Kennet & Avon Canal towpath for time trials. (Racing on towpaths at 'average' of 19mph.)
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