THE inquest into the death of the 17 year old boy, Jack Susiant, who drowned in the Lee last year heard that police stood by refusing to enter the water to save him.
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IT SEEMS impossible to believe but now the Canal & River Trust wants volunteer boaters to do their engineering work for them by inspecting the Upper Trent and Nottingham Canal in their own boats!
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THE Dudley No 2 Canal is blocked at Highbridge Bridge by contractor's plant in the waterway.
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YOUR report under the heading 'Where are they'—So CaRT decided on a panel who agreed to add another 25,000,000 (visitors) to its already impossible figure of 360,000,000 millions, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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TO ME, it has got to the point that any statistics given out by the Canal & River Trust have to be taken with a pinch of salt, as one of your people stated, writes Terry Palmer.
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IT IS less than 12 months since I reported on the beginnings of the new 'super marina' at Onley on the Oxford Canal, with much pegging out both on the towpath (for the entrance) and in the fields adjoining, writes Kevin McNiff.
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BROADCASTER John Sergeant is again taking to the canals in a second series of Barging Around Britain, but says he is keeping away from boating enthusiasts who are complaining of him using the word barge instead of narrowboat and suchlike.
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THE Environmental Agency is clamping down on the owners of unregistered boats on the Thames, taking boaters to court.
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THE Friends of Dawn Rose, are allowing organisations to take part in a sponsored pull of the 70ft narrowboat to enable them to arrange a 'pull a canal boat' to raise funds for their organisations.
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I SEE the Bargee Travellers Association has once again conned the BBC into another sob story of a family with a continuous cruiser licence bemoaning the fact that he [the family] has children locally at school but has to move his boat, writes James Henry.
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