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Email: Keep moving

In response to Rob Dennis' question to 'What will they do?' I suggest that if they do '...remove their boat number, remove or mask the name...' they will not just carry on as he says.

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Published: 09 March 2015

Email: Cheaper way

The end of continuous cruising actually occurred the moment Canal & River Trust's previous guise ie British Waterways started issuing continuous cruising licences to people with jobs and children of school age.

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Published: 09 March 2015

Celebrations at Gloucester Museum

THE Gloucester Waterways Museum is recognising British Science Week with its own celebration of science and engineering within the museum and on the canal and river network.

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Published: 09 March 2015

Cyclists must give way

WHILST CaRT might not want to introduce any regulations to inhibit cyclists using the canal towpaths, the Kennet & Avon between Bradford on Avon and Bath is part of the National Cycle Route Network, writes Peter Earley.

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Published: 09 March 2015

Cannot be continuously monitored

THE letter from CaRT states 'If we've any concerns about a boater's past cruising pattern, we will get in touch about six weeks before the licence renewal date', writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 09 March 2015

Cart hurriedly responds

AFTER dithering for months over how far a continuous cruiser should cruise to comply by the rules, Canal & River Trust, though still not stating a definite distance, at least tells us that it must be more than the 15 to 20 miles over the period of their licence.

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Published: 08 March 2015

Boy drowned after 'dare'

A SCHOOLBOY responding to a 'dare' to walk a pipe attached to a Leeds & Liverpool Canal bridge, fell and drowned.

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Published: 06 March 2015

Email: What will they do?

I don't know if this has been said before, but if CaRT do not renew the licences of these people that don't obey the rules (in CaRT's eyes), what are they going to do?

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Published: 06 March 2015

More moorings on the Macc

MANY boaters have difficulty finding moorings close to Macclesfield town centre on the Macclesfield Canal, so Canal & River Trust will shortly be installing new pontoon moorings for visiting boaters.

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Published: 06 March 2015

Double U-turn for CaRT!

WITHIN minutes of the narrowboatworld article ‘CaRT still bullying?', the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has made a spectacular U-turn, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 06 March 2015

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