HAVING read narrowboatworld over the years, a continuous pattern emerges. First we hear about the state of the system and the lack of maintenance. As the boating season starts, we hear about continuous cruisers, overstaying moorers, speeding boaters, licence dodgers and cyclists, writes Peter Ponting.
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A CAMPAIGN backed by a local councillor to upgrade a section of the Oxford Canal towpath into a cycle track has been delayed so as to avoid the vole mating season.
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NO OPENING date can be given for the failed Wood End Lift Bridge on the Peak Forest Canal that was damaged earlier this month.
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THERE has been much speculation in the newspapers, radio, television and various political parties about a potential invasion of humanity from Eastern Europe, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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SILENCE now surrounds Canal & River Trust's closure of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Dutton (Dutton has leaked since being repaired), writes Allan Richards.
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OWING to a 999 call being missed by operators, the emergency services arrived too late to save a student who had fallen in the Avon from drowning.
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TO MY mind Dean Davis was one of the best managers the Canal & River Trust had, always willing to help boaters and putting himself out to do so, writes James Henry.
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During the summer I had my boat moored by the flats at Brentford, [Grand Union Canal] and took particular notice of the passage of narrowboats either on to or off the Thames.
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PLANS to install new lock gates on a lock in Staveley on the Chesterfield Canal can now go ahead thanks to a funding from the Veolia Environmental Trust.
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I FOR one will certainly shed no tears over the loss of Phil Spencer, CaRT's erstwhile Head of Business Boating. That he argued that Canal & River Trust was in total ownership of our waterways and could therefore do as it liked did nothing to warm me to him, or to the Trust, writes Pam Pickett.
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