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By STACEY MULLEN
SCOTTISH Canals has launched a volunteering recruitment drive to help preserve some of -Scotland's 250-year-old heritage sites.
The organisation hopes to recruit more than 100 volunteers each year to help safeguard the future of Scotland's canals, and volunteers from Dell, and Kelvindale and St Mary's primary schools gathered in Glasgow on Monday to kick-start the drive.
The group repaired mortar and operated locks on the Forth and Clyde Canal at Maryhill Locks as part of Volunteer Week 2016 - but they are calling for others to join them.
Engineers, stone masons and joiners as well as lock keepers, archivists, marketing specialists and environmental experts are being urged to step...