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CaRT wants NT protection

THE Canal & River Trust is asking for the Growth & Infrastructure Bill to be amended to beef up planning protection for the waterways, writes Allan Richards.
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Published: 22 January 2013

Boater operated tidal lock

Am I wrong in assuming that West Stockwith Lock on the tidal Trent must be operated by a designated lock keeper at all times, if so can anyone tell me what does this extract from an email from Canal & River Trust mean, asks Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 21 January 2013

Boater's death was suicide

A BOATER moored at High Offley on the Shropshire Union Canal had committed suicide after the death of his brother.

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Published: 21 January 2013

Man charged with break-ins

A MAN has been charged with burglary over the break-ins of the narrowboats moored on the Oxford Canal as reported in narrowboatworld.

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Published: 21 January 2013

Who are they?

I understand there are 35 members on the Canal & River Trust committee but only four are so called ‘boaters' representatives, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 21 January 2013

Paying our way

Peter Ponting makes good points. We hired for years, then owned a share in the same Ownerships boat as Allan and Chris Richards, finally blowing most of our life savings on a rusty old boat seven years ago, writes John Bamford.

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Published: 21 January 2013

Getting too close

A CAPITAL Radio newsreader was really too close to her job when she was reporting on the weather affecting the waterways—she fell in!

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Published: 21 January 2013

No more please

IT SEEMS that many of you have forgotten that the subject of continuous cruisers/moorers has been banned from narrowboatworld.

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Published: 21 January 2013

Email: Workable plan wanted

I seem to be seeing a lot of anti CaRT rhetoric around. It's about time that we boaters got our act straight. There are those (and I'm one) who would like to see something done about over stayers.

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Published: 20 January 2013

Oxley Marine fire

IT WAS in the early hours of yesterday morning (Saturday) that Jan Mable at Oxley Marine raised the alarm when she see saw smoke and flames coming from a building used for storage of stock—beer and engineering—Orph Mable writes.

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Published: 20 January 2013

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