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Liverpool Link stay shortend

THE period that boaters can now stay in Liverpool after using the link has been reduced from 14 days to seven days, Canal & River Trust has decided.

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Published: 05 August 2015

Waterside campus for Nene

THE Nene at Northampton will take on an entirely different outlook over the next few years with Northampton University building a new water-side campus.

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Published: 05 August 2015

Tipton Boat Gauging House saved

THE development company Stoford Living wanted to turn the Grade II listed Boat Gauging House at Tipton on the BCN into homes, but its plan failed.

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Published: 03 August 2015

Banbury problems

THE problems at Banbury are no different from other ‘honeypot', sites with regard to liveaboards, let alone continuous moorers, writes Martin Howes.

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Published: 03 August 2015

Something needs to be done

KEITH is of course right to say that something needs to be done about the sort of behaviour he has encountered, writes Martin Cox.

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Published: 03 August 2015

Email: Standard cop-out

Julie Smith states 'I have seen no evidence to suggest that Jackie Lewis deliberately misled the Ombudsman Committee'. (Boss did not deliberately mislead.)

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Published: 03 August 2015

Not so many 'Friends'

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) released information last week contradicting the claim by its Chairman, Tony Hales, in its 2015/15 Annual Report that it had more than 11,000 ‘Friends', writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 03 August 2015

Boat explodes at Thames lock

A BOAT exploded at Bray Lock at Taplow on the Thames today (Sunday) with a total of seven people being taken to hospital for treatment.

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Published: 02 August 2015

Email: Banbury problem

I did consider calling the police [at Banbury] but decided against it due to past experience in calling them about problems on the waterway—what proof did I have, would be their first question and if I have none, nor any witnesses then all that would happen would be that I might just might get a crime number.

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Published: 31 July 2015

Rufford Branch closed for nearly two months

THOUGH Canal & River Trust have managed to repair the holes in the bed of the Lancaster Canal near Lune Aqueduct, there is still no access from the main system.

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Published: 31 July 2015

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