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BRITISH Waterways propaganda department scored a major coup at the weekend with a front page picture and an article in the Sunday Telegraph Life section all about their need for volunteers for 61 locks 'from Bradford to Bath'.

THE more I read about the creation of the Canal and River Trust the more suspicious I become.

I TOOK advantage of the last fine days of autumn to make a little trip down the south Oxford as far as Heyford, since the summit restrictions had been removed.

WE SPENT last week on a hire boat on part of the Canal du Midi, which, like all the canals in France, is owned and operated by Voies Navigable de France, an agency of the French government, writes Our Foreign Correspondent.

AN ARTICLE appeared in a side column of yesterday's Times that is so short I can quote it in full:

WHEN we return from our long summer cruise I usually write a piece about how little we have actually suffered in the way of inconvenience from British Waterways, in terms of broken paddles, unexpected stoppages and so on.

DESPITE the fact that my newspaper says that rainfall in July was at normal levels, British waterways have started introducing drought restrictions.