IT WAS the result of vandalism that prompted the repair to the guillotine lock at Kings Norton on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, that will be officially unveiled by Timothy West.
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IT IS is not really helpful for police just to say that simple lock and hasp solutions are inadequate. I guess we all know that but do not have much alternative, writes Mike Todd.
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THE long awaited Kings Orchard Marina on the Coventry Canal is offering 20% off its normal mooring charges for boaters taking up moorings before September.
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Not wanting to be depressing—but it's not only the CaRT's Trent & Mersey, Huddersfield Narrow canals and Aylesbury Arm that are closed due to breaches and lock collapse at the moment. (Oh no it isn't.)
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Mr Moran provides several paragraphs of detail on the various call routings, staffing arrangements and work-flows associated with the [emergency telephone] number, and berates members of the public for not having been aware of them.
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Although we need to keep from being too panicky about boat safety and lock walls as I have just read on the site—I do think that Canal & River Trust should indeed be worried.
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Ross Lydall's story (Evening Standard, 15 April—page 26), about an architect's nutty proposal for an elevated bike path along part of the Regent's Canal, surely should have been published on April Fool's Day.
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I accept that some experiences of hire boats leave others less than impressed but we are currently on the southern Oxford, just below Banbury.
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Last Summer we hired from Oxford Narrowboats, Lower Heyford for a week. We made the trip up to Cropredy and back.
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CaRT seems to have spent some time during the winter in much needed vegetation cutting on the Grand Union, both towpath and offside—not before time. I can only hope that this has been the case all over the system.
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