WHEN passing through the three locks at Soulbury this past week on the Grand Union Canal, I noticed a rather large hole had appeared on the lock side of the bottom lock, writes John Howard.
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I FOUNDED Emma's Dream in memory of my beautiful daughter Emma Kathryn, who in September 2010 I found hanging in my previous home bedroom, writes Julia Okeefe.
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EVERY so often there's a story on BBC News about a subject I already know quite a bit about, and all too often its version of reality seems to be unsettlingly different from the one I know. It really makes you wonder how much you can trust all its other stories, writes David Davis.
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Moored boaters being passed by this idiot would be well within their rights to shout at the steerer of Grace from Napton Narrowboats to slow down as it wrecks the canal banks with its speed. There really is a need for engine limiting, for this one is far too powerful for these uncaring hirers.
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JULY 2014 was an important anniversary and I cannot understand how it passed me by without a big celebration. Yes it was the second anniversary of the formation of the Canal & River Trust, writes John Sloan.
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IT WOULD seem the comment by contributors that there is less vandal activity was somewhat premature, as Canal & River Trust have now had to close locks to navigation during evening and night.
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There seems to be a lot of criticism of enforcement officers for doing their job and trying to enforce the rules, writes David Hargreaves.
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THE speed whingers have featured often in narrowboatworld but when even the gentle John Dodwell is drawn to comment on the ignorant—and commonly rude—speed obsessives (Not-sailing-off-into-the-sunset) it is obviously time that these sad people were better educated on the subject, writes David Lyneham-Brown.
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THE boating season is now drawing to a close for the majority of the readers of narrowboatworld, and as a general observation, from my standpoint alongside the Staffs & Worcs. Canal, it has been a pretty good one, writes Orph Mable.
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THE moorers who are attempting to lay claim to a river bank at Oxford (Another attempt to grab river bank) are causing tensions amongst people living nearby.
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