IT IS not only boating in this country that is declining, but that in Ireland too, with less use of its waterways by hire craft.
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WITH Canal & River Trust ignoring a petition to abandon its proposals for the imposition of shorter stay times at visitor moorings combined with fines for overstaying, boaters have switched to the media to argue the case, writes Allan Richards.
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THE National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) tells us that it cautiously welcomed publication of details of completed court cases against boat owners by the Canal and River Trust.
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MANY canal buildings along the Scottish waterways have suffered years of neglect, but many are soon to be restored under the Heritage Strategy being drafted by Scottish Canals
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MONEY is being spent to upgrade the towpath of the Chesterfield Canal through Worksop.
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THE Chesterfield Canal Trust has requested a meeting with HS2 rail officials on its impact on the canal restoration.
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THE local residents at Hawkesbury on the Coventry Canal are angered at the revised plans for a new marina.
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IT WAS very easy for the crane to topple into the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Apperley, but it seems a much greater problem getting it out.
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Mike Todd wrote a while back on narrowboatworld about the use of spying and advising Neighbourhood Watch schemes—see www.narrowboatworld/5289 writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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CANAL & RIVER TRUST is so worried about passing boats upsetting the nests of water birds on Limehouse Cut that money is being spent on installing over 100 yards of reed beds.
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