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BBC takes up the 'overgrown' campaign

THE campaign to make the Southern Oxford Canal a safer place for boating started in narrowboatworld (Neglected South Oxford) has been taken up by BBC News Oxford.

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Published: 01 September 2013

Victor: Unhappy bunnies

AT THE moment our illustrious editor Thomas and colleague Jan are somewhat unhappy bunnies, being nearly a thousand quid poorer for something that was mostly left to be resorted.

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Published: 01 September 2013

David: K&A paddle gear

TONY Brooks makes a valid point about the gearbox paddle gear on the Kennet & Avon; it often does stick so that you cannot drop the paddles in an emergency.

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Published: 31 August 2013

K&A reopens

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) pulled out all the stops to repair the lock gate on Caen Hill Flight that closed the flight, after a hire boat lifted the gate out.

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Published: 30 August 2013

Narrowboat thief caught

THE man that police forces throughout the country want to speak to in regard to narrowboat burglaries (Search for narrowboat thief) has at last been apprehended.

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Published: 30 August 2013

The Hot Tug—a new venture

The ‘Hot Tug', launched during August by the Runnymede-on-Thames Hotel is certainly something different—a real hot tub for guests, that's floating on the Thames.

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Published: 30 August 2013

Use the boats

I FOUND when I was on the Grand Union the best diesel and coal prices were always the coal/diesel boats, and there are plenty of them too, so there was never a long wait for one to pass by, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 30 August 2013

Email: Price of diesel

The reason for the email is in response to the price of red fuel, with most place seem to think they are doing you a favour at 92 to 95p, but I think that is a bit high.

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Published: 29 August 2013

Boy drowns after bridge jumping

ONE of a gang of four boys jumping off a footbridge spanning the Cam just outside Cambridge has lost his life.

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Published: 29 August 2013

A moorings ramble

RARELY is a visit to the ‘Tell it like it is' website a good laugh. I and many others have ‘popped in' for a look at the ‘latest' and most of us, I guess, would be expecting to read, mostly, of less than pleasant things said or done or happening, writes Geoff Smith.

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Published: 29 August 2013

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