IT WOULD would appear to me that CART is sprouting committees like my lawn sprouts weeds. I haven't bothered to put a number to them although I dare say someone could, but there does seem to be rather a lot, writes Orph Mable.
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NATURE lovers together with a local landowner have stopped restoration of Norfolk's only canal by bringing in the might of the Environment Agency.
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Regarding the last photo and comment in the 'Grand Union situation', I sincerely hope the author of this article spoke with the boater to learn how long she/he waited for another boat with which to pair through the locks.
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AFTER the rainfall and resulting floods the Witham had to be closed, and subsequently no passage through the Grand Sluice Lock in Boston.
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THE often promoted peace of the waterways was shattered when the owner of a narrowboat assaulted two rowers, narrowly escaping jail.
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THOUGH past applications for development had failed, approval has been given for a waterside residential development at the site of Marsworth Workshop on the Grand Union Canal.
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A GREAT deal of importance was set on the acceptance of plans for a development by the derelict Hereford & Gloucester Canal, to further the restoration, but it has been recommended for refusal.
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A BOATER, found to be unconscious in his narrowboat proved difficult to reach as his boat was drifting, and it needed a rescue boat to reach him.
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THE Bishop of Reading intended to use the Kennet & Avon Canal and the Thames for a river pilgrimage, but things are not going according to plan.
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A COUPLE on their narrowboat taking part in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the Thames have become marooned on the Avon in flood.
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