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The mooring issue

If anyone said to me "I've found mooring difficult this year," my first response would to be to ask where, then at what time of year and perhaps, what time of day. Without that data the first statement is pretty much meaningless, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 01 March 2013

Man blames chest pains for killing

A MAN accused of shooting dead his two parents after driving them into a canal has blamed chest pains for the incident, but it has been discovered he had no history of heart problems.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Towpath flasher back

A MAN is exposing himself to girls walking the Grand Union Canal towpath in Berkhamsted.

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Published: 28 February 2013

CaRT quiet on £6,750,000 spend

THERE  has been no Press Release or any intimation that Canal & River Trust has spent £6,750.000  on an office building.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Charities raise money

I SUSPECT Peter Ponting is creating a straw man: many charities raise money, whether by specific appeal or not, for matters that are their responsibility, writes Mike Todd.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Correcting impression

WE WOULD like to correct a false impression that your headline, ‘NABO welcomes court decision', and some of the opening comments in that article may have caused, writes Simon Robbins.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Preparing for Cromford trips

A LENGTH of the Cromford Canal at its terminus is to be cleaned-up in preparation for narrowboat trips.

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Published: 27 February 2013

'Idle Women' poster girl found

THE girl depicted on a poster advertising for women to work the canals during the second world war, has been found after in international search.

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Published: 27 February 2013

Canal 'on' again

THE restoration of the Wilts and Berks Canal through Swindon has been on and off many times, as regular readers of narrowboatworld will have learned, but at the moment it is 'on' once again.

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Published: 27 February 2013

Residentials official at Ripon

A COUNCIL has given permission for boaters to officially permanently live on their boats at Ripon Marina.

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Published: 27 February 2013

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  • Lift bridge established as part of restoration
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  • Museum offering weekend of 1976 admission prices
  • Intentions to create new terminus basin at Burslem
  • Usual canals closed through lack of water

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