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Mark Horton for Cotswolds

PROFESSOR Mark Horton of Time Team and Coast fame amongst many other television programmes is to make his inaugural tour of the Cotswold Canals.

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Published: 11 March 2013

More boaters fined

THE  Environment Agency is keeping up its pressure on unlicenced boats on the Nene and River Great Ouse.

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Published: 11 March 2013

Thieves stop rescue boat

THIEVES have stopped the use of a rescue boat on the Avon, by stealing its outboard engine.

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Published: 11 March 2013

CaRT to run surgeries

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of MPs, Canal & River Trust is to embark on surgeries to 'encourage people to have a greater role in how their local waterway is run'.

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Published: 11 March 2013

The blight of continuous moorers

IT IS surely essential that the 'continuous moorer' problem, which is getting completely out of control, thus blighting the whole of the waterways, must be settled.

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Published: 11 March 2013

Boats broken into

IT SEEMS that Middlewich on the Trent & Mersey Canal is not the place to leave your boat unattended, with it having a record of break-ins.

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Published: 10 March 2013

Home moorings

WITH so many empty berths in marinas, owners are now pleased to 'do deals' with boaters, even if this means lesser income with such selective use, but CaRT is unable to understand this, issuing continuous cruiser licences to boaters with home moorings, as Ralph Freeman explains:

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Published: 10 March 2013

Where do they get them?

IF YOU subscribe to Canal & River Trust's Boaters Update, you would be wise to take little notice of its latest advice.

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Published: 09 March 2013

Boat stays sunk

THE narrowboat that sank in Osney Lock on the Thames after it broke free of its moorings is still in the bottom of the lock.

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Published: 08 March 2013

Grant for narrowboat

THERE will soon be boat trips on the Cromford Canal due to a grant of £28,000 to purchase a narrowboat.

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Published: 08 March 2013

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