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WRG on the Chelmer & Blackwater

THE Waterway Recovery Group volunteers of the IWA are carrying out towpath improvement works on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation.

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Published: 27 February 2013

Suspended sentences and fines for boat builders

TWO boat builder directors have been given suspended sentences of six months and fines of £2,500 each for acting as directors of a company while disqualified.

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Published: 27 February 2013

No Dutton Easter opening

THOUGH Canal & River Trust promised the breach at Dutton on the Trent & Mersey Canal would be open for the busy Easter period, it will not.

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Published: 27 February 2013

Second art competition

AFTER its success with its Art Exhibition last year, Mercia Marina is making it an annual event, in conjunction with the annual Willington Arts Festival.

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Published: 25 February 2013

Concerns over appeal

HAVING looked at the Charities Commission web site, and in particular the Canal & River Trus't Objects of Association I am concerned about the breach appeal, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 25 February 2013

Still waiting for repair

IT SEEMS that a Leeds & Liverpool Canal retaining wall rebuilt six years ago was not up to standard, as it has collapsed with the rubble falling into Jez Dowthwaite's back yard.

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Published: 25 February 2013

Where to begin?

I HAVE been watching narrowboatworld as always, and I have tried not to comment on the CaRT, etc, as I said I wanted to give it a year to see how things panned out, but it has not been easy to sit back, writes Dave Carden.

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Published: 25 February 2013

Canalside development

THERE are three proposed developments for the canalside of the Grand Union Canal at Yiewsley and West Drayton, above Bull's Bridge.

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Published: 25 February 2013

Decline in Ireland hire boating

IT IS not only boating in this country that is declining, but that in Ireland too, with less use of its waterways by hire craft.

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Published: 25 February 2013

Boaters using the media

WITH Canal & River Trust ignoring a petition to abandon its proposals for the imposition of shorter stay times at visitor moorings combined with fines for overstaying, boaters have switched to the media to argue the case, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 25 February 2013

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