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Email: Can get Watermate keys

I really cannot see the problem. Watermate Keys and vandal keys have always been readily available from chandlers, local shops, waterway offices and adjacent businesses. I cannot recall ever having been asked if I am entitled to one.

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Published: 08 October 2014

Cannot be accurate

I WOULD suggest Paul Griffin is talking out of his stern tube. It doesn't matter whether the unit used by spotters is using GPS or not, (Is system fit for purpose?) writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 08 October 2014

Stop these idiots

THERE is a campaign underway—by students—to allow them to use Bristol Harbour for swimming!

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Published: 06 October 2014

Teenager drowns in Huddersfield Narrow

A TEENAGER was found in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal on Saturday, and was pronounced dead later at hospital.

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Published: 06 October 2014

Volunteer lock keepers at Atherstone

In defence of Atherstone Locks, we now have a team of 16 volunteer lock keepers having had six new persons join us in August and our rota shows the flight is manned every day with at least one and sometimes up to four on duty writes Roger Hart.

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Published: 06 October 2014

Anyone can now get a Watermate key

THE result of Canal & River Trust now locking Fradley Swing Bridge after Mick Fitzgibbons pointed out in narrowboatworld its danger to the children playing on it, it is now to be locked closed.

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Published: 06 October 2014

Saved from being pushed into canal

IT WAS the prompt arrival of police that saved a woman being literally thrown into the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes.

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Published: 06 October 2014

Is system fit for purpose?

As a result of CaRT's attempt to remove yet another boater from its waters, again a liveaboard but this time a liveaboard with a home mooring, various concerns with regard to the methods used by the trust have emerged, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 06 October 2014

Victor: Engine regulations

AND now for a complete change, I'm going to comment on comments in articles, if you know what I mean.

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Published: 05 October 2014

Pump-out card problem

I have to agree with Richard Swan's comments regarding pump outs and the card system; you can even pay for car parking with a debit card these days.

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Published: 04 October 2014

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