I READ with interest the various recent contributions regarding carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning on boats, and especially the effect of other boats' smoke (both chimneys and exhausts) on those living aboard, writes John Howard.
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SAWLEY Marina on the Trent is offering a free two course Christmas meal for four for the boat showing the best Christmas lights.
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THE jury in the trial of the owner of a Thames marina who was on trial for groping his apprentices at his boatyard and slapping their bottoms, (Marina boss on trial for groping) found him not guilty.
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PLANS for a new marina on the Stratford Canal have now been approved as there was no local objections to the plans.
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WITH an admitted 22 chamber hang-ups of boats in the Bank Newton Flight on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, it is indeed a disgrace, writes the Editor.
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I'M AFRAID that no matter how tragic, or how much is done to prevent it, you will not be able to stop students, or anyone else for that matter, from getting paralytic with alcohol and falling into water and drowning, writes Owen Battle.
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I have just read your article on the dangers of wood smoke from boat stoves, and now intend to do something about the two boats' owners who burn nothing but wood on their stoves, and I get all the smoke.
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A STUDY by the very respected Royal College of Physicians has warned that wood burning stoves are not only bad for the environment but also your health with them contributing to 40,000 deaths a year!
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The Avon at Bath has claimed yet another victim, and once again a student who had been out drinking.
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SOLO narrowboat owner, Amy, was endangered on the tidal Thames by the 'unofficial closure' during the end of October—without warning—of Brentford Lock that connects the tidal Thames to the Grand Union Canal, Ken Churchill tells us.
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