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IT IS a famous saying - the Clyde made Glasgow and Glasgow made the Clyde ... The success of the River Clyde in the 17th and 18th centuries was down to the city's location facing the Americas. Merchants began to make commercial links and Glasgow became the international centre for the tobacco trade. However, the shallow Clyde was not navigable for the largest ocean-going ships and in 1662, Glasgow Council purchased land and built harbours where there was deeper water, at what would become Port Glasgow. There was mounting pressure to deepen the river so that large boats could reach the...

Monday, 1 February 2021, 2:59 pm The Manawatū River Leaders’ Forum has announced that for the first time Te Oranga o te Awa – the Manawatū River Improvement Festival, will be held in Foxton to celebrate the reopening of the Foxton River Loop Reserve. The celebration will be held at the reserve on Saturday 27 February from 10am-3pm. It will provide an opportunity for the community to come together and mark the rejuvenation of a key part of the River Loop, which silted up after the upstream entrance of the Loop was accidentally cut off from the Manawatū River about 80 years ago. Forum ...