THOUGH John Sergeant in the latest mockery of life on the waterways in the form of his television Barging Around tells us that there are more leisure boats on the waterways than ever before, we know it is untrue, as even CaRT figures clearly show they are declining.
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VICTOR charts various ways in which BW and now CaRT have wasted money over the years, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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MEMBERS of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society (BCNS) have been working to clear access to the Titford Pools, a canal reservoir which can be accessed, with difficulty by narrowboat.
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I entirely agree with John Morgan's comments (Schools and boaters) about the rights of boaters' children to attend school, writes Martin Howes.
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Nearly £30 million is being spent on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in a City Connect Scheme, but alas not for the waterway, but yet again for its towpath.
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THE authorities are still continuing their investigation into the narrowboat fire on Mill Stream at Oxford, with its cause still not known.
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KEITH Gudgin is expecting flak as a result of his article 'Not too much to ask', and it is highly likely that flak will indeed be thrown in his direction from the continuous moorers he so accurately described, as they no doubt see their selfish and arrogant 'cheap' way of life under threat, writes Terry Ollerton.
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THE Summer season has not yet started, but the failures have, with the Kennet & Avon Canal already closed due to a lock failure.
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I must object to Terry Ollerton's email about key workers without a mooring sending their children to school.
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WITH the discovery of a man's body in the Leeds & Liverpool canal at Bootle, it makes the third such death in the area.
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