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Boat rape man will get jail

A MAN who assaulted a woman on the narrowboat she shared with her partner, has been found guilty, with the judge telling him he can expect a jail sentence of years not months.

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Published: 21 June 2013

De-watered to repair boat

A POUND of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal is being de-watered, and so closed, so that the trip boat can be repaired.

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Published: 20 June 2013

Fish killed by drained water

WATER draining into the Staffs & Worcs Canal from dousing a fire caused hundreds of fish to die.

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Published: 20 June 2013

Man died after resuscitation

THOUGH several people attempted CPR on a man who fell into the River Great Ouse at Bedford, it was in vain.

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Published: 20 June 2013

Middle Level boats

The recent article you published (Tolls have boaters' support) does not seem to match the reality that I see regularly, writes John Quinlan.

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Published: 20 June 2013

A different approach

WHEN I returned to our boat when moored on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal in May, it was covered in grass cuttings which had been sprayed onto a wet boat and then baked in the sun, Peter Earley writes.

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Published: 19 June 2013

Tolls have boaters support

HAVING a toll for the use of Stanground and Salter Lode locks has the support of local boat owners as the most cost effected method of raising funds to cover the lock keepers' wages and the care and repair of the locks, write Kelvin Alexander Duggan.

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Published: 19 June 2013

Work on Heartbreak Hill

VICTOR'S comments about the condition of the Cheshire Locks on the Trent & Mersey Canal—better known as Heartbreak Hill—has brought criticism, pointing out the work of Inland Waterways Association volunteers.

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Published: 19 June 2013

Boats representing CaRT

THE two historic boats Mendip and Gifford have left the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port on a trip to the Lymm Historic Transport Day.

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Published: 19 June 2013

Upton moorings climb-down

THE reversal of the decision to use the 'safe haven' moorings at Upton-on-Severn  for sole use of a trip boat has been published, Amy Dickerson tells us.

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Published: 19 June 2013

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