I SUSPECT Peter Ponting is creating a straw man: many charities raise money, whether by specific appeal or not, for matters that are their responsibility, writes Mike Todd.
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WE WOULD like to correct a false impression that your headline, ‘NABO welcomes court decision', and some of the opening comments in that article may have caused, writes Simon Robbins.
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A LENGTH of the Cromford Canal at its terminus is to be cleaned-up in preparation for narrowboat trips.
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THE girl depicted on a poster advertising for women to work the canals during the second world war, has been found after in international search.
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THE restoration of the Wilts and Berks Canal through Swindon has been on and off many times, as regular readers of narrowboatworld will have learned, but at the moment it is 'on' once again.
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A COUNCIL has given permission for boaters to officially permanently live on their boats at Ripon Marina.
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IN ADDITION to using both television and radio to state their objections, those affected by the proposed new mooring rules are also resorting to the Press.
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THE Waterway Recovery Group volunteers of the IWA are carrying out towpath improvement works on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation.
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TWO boat builder directors have been given suspended sentences of six months and fines of £2,500 each for acting as directors of a company while disqualified.
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THOUGH Canal & River Trust promised the breach at Dutton on the Trent & Mersey Canal would be open for the busy Easter period, it will not.
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