WE need urgent action to build and renew our canal systems.
Britain needs to extend and control its waterways and to build new dams to produce energy and for the expansion of British industry. Let’s save the cost of a high-speed railway, stop subsidising the EU and spend on British priorities.
CE Loerns, Durham.
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