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David: State of the system

AT THE risk of contradicting Victor, our experience over the last month of the state of the canals doesn't match his.

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Published: 25 April 2013

Basingstoke short lived

THOUGH many boats celebrated the re-opening of the Basingstoke, this has been short lived, as another land-slip has occurred.

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Published: 24 April 2013

Almost total dearth of boats

BY THIS time of the year, I would have expected to observe some significant improvement in the level of boats cruising the canals. Over the Easter holiday we were out for two weeks and saw very little in the way of boaters doing their thing, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 24 April 2013

Guillotine lock repaired

IT WAS the result of vandalism that prompted the repair to the  guillotine lock at Kings Norton on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, that will be officially unveiled by Timothy West.

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Published: 24 April 2013

Security for narrowboats

IT IS is not really helpful for police just to say that simple lock and hasp  solutions are inadequate. I guess we all know that but do not have much alternative, writes Mike Todd.

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Published: 24 April 2013

20% off at new marina

THE long awaited Kings Orchard Marina on the Coventry Canal is offering 20% off its normal mooring charges for boaters taking up moorings before September.

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Published: 24 April 2013

Email: The other breaches

Not wanting to be depressing—but it's not only the CaRT's Trent & Mersey, Huddersfield Narrow canals and Aylesbury Arm that are closed due to breaches and lock collapse at the moment. (Oh no it isn't.)

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Published: 24 April 2013

Email: Emergency telephone number

Mr Moran provides several paragraphs of detail on the various call routings, staffing arrangements and work-flows associated with the [emergency telephone] number, and berates members of the public for not having been aware of them.

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Published: 19 April 2013

Email: Tighten up inspection procedures

Although we need to keep from being too panicky about boat safety and lock walls as I have just read on the site—I do think that Canal & River Trust should indeed be worried.

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Published: 17 April 2013

Email: Speeding cyclists

Ross Lydall's story (Evening Standard, 15 April—page 26), about an architect's nutty proposal for an elevated bike path along part of the Regent's Canal, surely should have been published on April Fool's Day.

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Published: 17 April 2013

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