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48 hours or months?

WE ARE receiving many emails concerning the narrowboats moored permanently on the 48 hours moorings at Bath, with you aghast at it being allowed to go on for so long.

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Published: 23 April 2014

Email: Take care

I realise that it is very tragic for the widow of the man who lost his life falling down the icy steps of the canal bridge in Skipton, but surely it was his prerogative to take care.

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Published: 23 April 2014

New marina for the Ashby

A NEW marina is in the course of being constructed at Bosworth on the Ashby Canal, with its recent Open Day proving that there is great interest.

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Published: 23 April 2014

Another Devizes drowning

THE body of a 44 years old man was discovered in the Kennet & Avon canal in Devizes on Friday morning, the third in the past few months.

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Published: 21 April 2014

A little unfair?

A CORONER has ordered Canal & River Trust to take action over a footbridge over the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Skipton where a man slipped and suffered a fatal fall on the ice on the bridge.

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Published: 21 April 2014

The residents of Bath

TAKING a cruise along the Avon at Bath, our Alan Tilbury had chance to photograph the 'residents' of the city on the Kennet & Avon Canal, with this one having its licence expired last December.

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Published: 21 April 2014

Boat hung-up in L&L lock

A NARROWBOAT was hung-up in a Johnson's Hill Lock near Chorley on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, as the pound emptied.

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Published: 21 April 2014

More charges from CaRT?

FOLLOWING alteration of its ‘General Terms and Conditions for Boat Licences', will Canal & River Trust (CaRT) start charging for using the Anderton Lift, Ribble Link and Standedge Tunnel? Asks Allan Richards.

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Published: 21 April 2014

Cruisers are cruisers

A NUMBER of contributors have complained recently about being regarded and treated in the same way (that is, being sanctioned in various unwelcome ways by CaRT) as continuous cruisers, despite having a registered home mooring, writes Suzanne MacLeod.

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Published: 17 April 2014

New Chesterfield Canal footbridge


THE deck of Constitution Hill Bridge was fitted this month over the Chesterfield Canal just below Morrison's at Mill Green in Staveley.
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Published: 17 April 2014

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  • Water, water, everywhere
  • Still no paddles for lock on Glasson Branch
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  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
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  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
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