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Email: Canoeists and rowers

I was under the, obviously mistaken, impression that you only included stories concerning narrowboats and that canoeists did not come under your remit, but pleased to see that they do.

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Published: 26 November 2014

Canoeists causing mayhem

I AM a continuous cruiser narrowboater and at present I am moored on a 14 days visitor mooring at Linslade/Leighton Buzzard on the Grand Union Canal. writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 26 November 2014

Missing the point

THE Floating Bookshop row is set to escalate with even the BBC now reporting the story (CaRT to close floating bookshop), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 26 November 2014

Stove suspected for boaters death

A BOATER died in his boat after it caught fire during the early hours of Monday morning, with fire fighters suspecting its wood burning stove.

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Published: 26 November 2014

Angler's body in lock

THE body of an angler was discovered on Saturday in Netham Lock in Bristol where boats from the Kennet & Avon Canal access the Floating Harbour.

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Published: 24 November 2014

Running the gauntlet?

LIVING on the canals and being a keen observer of nature I'm somewhat bemused by the idea of a 'wildlife corridor', writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 24 November 2014

Actor's boat vandalised

THE cruiser belonging to actor Richard Cordery was broken into, its interior wrecked then set adrift at a canal centre on the Basingstoke Canal.

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Published: 24 November 2014

Dog blinded on towpath

A VICIOUS attack by a loose fighting dog on a Pomeranian that was on a lead on a towpath, resulted in it being blinded.

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Published: 24 November 2014

Four Avon deaths this year

THE man that was found drowned in the Avon at Bath during August brings the total in the city this year to four.
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Published: 24 November 2014

CaRT to close floating bookshop

LONDON'S only floating bookshop, Word on the Water, may be forced to close following a Canal & River Trust (CaRT) refusal of its application for a permanent mooring in Paddington Basin, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 24 November 2014

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