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Braunston gets political

THE 'hard left' newspaper The Morning Star' has featured a very political perspective view of Braunston's Historic Narrowboat Rally this week-end.

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Published: 23 June 2017

Canoeists use tunnels already

There is nothing new about canoeists using tunnels, as they have been using them for years, with meeting them in Coseley Tunnel on the Wolverhampton Level, the first time about three years ago and again this year.

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Published: 23 June 2017

Stealing gas bottles at Willington

TWO boaters have told that their gas bottles have been stolen from their narrowboats moored at Willington on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

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Published: 23 June 2017

Canoes in tunnels is sheer madness

I FULLY agree with both Orph Mable and Terry Bramley about the dangers of canoes sharing the tunnels with narrowboats, it is sheer madness, writes T. Lang.

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Published: 22 June 2017

Who will be blamed?

I moor our narrowboat at Anderton on the Trent & Mersey, and very often use Barnton and Saltersford tunnels, and occasionally Preston Brook Tunnel, so what if I meet a canoe in them? Asks Terry Bramley.

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Published: 22 June 2017

Clang!

THE Canal & River Trust is rather keen to attempt to show its 'achievements' by the use of surveys, which it states are from a 'representative selection' of the public, but this time it has rather dropped a clanger.

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Published: 22 June 2017

Locked-in boater dies in fire

A BOATER who it is believed slept at the rear of his narrowboat whilst the stern door was padlocked from the outside was unable to escape and died in a fire.

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Published: 22 June 2017

Runner drowned in canal

A RUNNER who was missing for three days was later discovered drowned in the Basingstoke Canal.

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Published: 21 June 2017

Those objectives

MY FIRST impression is that CART is probably not doing anything they shouldn't do, [It's objectives] but that doesn't mean they are doing what they should do, writes Paul Robinson.

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Published: 21 June 2017

Now it's 'sleeping policemen'

THE latest scheme from Canal & River Trust in an attempt to slow down speeding cyclists on the towpath are 'sleeping policemen'—one sleeping with the words 'Drop you pace share the space'.

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Published: 21 June 2017

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