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Rescue boat stolen

A SMALL dingy that was used to rescue boaters from their boats stranded in the floods on the Thames has been stolen.

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Published: 09 January 2013

Email: More sense

Following the publication of 'Should have more sense', it is worth pointing out that the boater must have travelled against advice, as there is a picture of the boat (Daily Telegraph of Monday 7th) in a lock, needless to say, with at least one rope in the water.

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Published: 09 January 2013

Email: Spying

I am unhappy with the adverse implication in the use of the term 'spy' to refer to people who send information to CaRT regarding boats that abuse their rights in using the canal system—or indeed any other illegal act.

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Published: 09 January 2013

Custody of the kids

THE MEMORANDUM of understanding between the Canal & River Trust and Inland Waterways Association has been labelled by some as a 'marriage of convenience', writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 09 January 2013

Virtual Lengthsman

I AM NOT sure whether it's what I write that has upset a few in Ivory Towers, or the photographs I take of things that need fixing, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 07 January 2013

Should have more sense

A VERY expensive 'gin palace' owner decided to take his new boat on the flooding Thames—but didn't get very far.

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Published: 07 January 2013

Asked to spy on boats

THOUGH many believe our reporting on the spying antics on boaters was somewhat far-fetched, it is actually happening, and even more widespread than at first thought.

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Published: 07 January 2013

Time it was moved

IN JUNE last year, the then British Waterways employees and other boaters reported a vessel that seemed to have been abandoned,  located at the entrance to the top lock in the Tinsley Flight and the entrance to Tinsley Marina, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 07 January 2013

Give the 'Hijacking' a rest

IF WE are going to give the discussion/argument between continuous cruisers and marina moorers a rest for a while perhaps we can do the same for the continual debate about the Inland Waterways Association 'hijacking' the Canal & River Trust Council, writes, Peter Early.

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Published: 07 January 2013

Nine boats burgled

THE number of narrowboat boats broken into on the Oxford Canal has reached worrying proportions, with the police no nearer in apprehending the thieves.

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Published: 07 January 2013

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