THOUGH we are told that the boat hire business is booming, and making up for a fall in private boating, research has found the opposite to be true, as Kevin McNiff has discovered.
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IT HAS been confirmed, as narrowboatworld foretold earlier this year, that security checks will be made on boaters on the Bridgewater Canal, again because of the Olympics.
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THE desire for visitors to the towpaths and the resulting mowing, has caused objections at a 10 feet swathe of wild flowers having been decimated by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
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THE the comments by David Dare in the Daily Telegraph feature on the state of the waterways, where he states the canals are in good condition, have brought responses from boaters using the waterways.
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A MAN'S body has been recovered from Braunston Marina at the junction of the Grand Union and Oxford canals.
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ARSON is suspected as the cause of a narrowboat fire at Longport on the Trent & Mersey Canal.
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SO MUCH debris has been washed downstream on the Severn that Worcester Bridge is choked.
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WITH the forecast that the jet stream that is causing so much flooding will be moving North, there is hope that boaters trapped by the Trent will be free to move.
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THERE will be no annual count of the swans on the Thames that passes through Oxfordshire this year, owing to the state of the river.
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THE Boat Safety Scheme committees have reviewed the BSS checks for private boats, and made some proposals for amendments.
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