IT WAS way back in 2009 (Lock keepers reach agreement—NbW 12/01/2010) that the lock keepers on the Thames rebelled against the Environment Agency who wanted to not only sell their cottages but cut staffing at the locks.
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IN RESPONSE to the claim by Canal & River Trust's Paul Griffin that 'They don't get away with it' (NbW—9/8/2012), I would reply 'Oh yes they do!', states Allan Richards.
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AT LEAST our contributors admit when they get things wrong, so Orph Mable apologises for an inaccuracy in his latest article in narrowboatworld 'Red Diesel—A boatyard perspective'.
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THE Planning Permission for the proposed Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway has been renewed for a further five years.
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THOUGH a boater has been arrested for being drunk in charge of a narrowboat (Drunk in charge of a boat arrest—NbW 06/08/12) the law is not yet in place.
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A NARROWBOAT going down Northgate Staircase on the Shropshire Union Canal in Chester caught on the cill and toppled over.
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IT WAS boater Peter Williamson walking to the local pub, Nightly Arms, who saw the police at a narrowboat at Yelvertoft on the summit pound of the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal.
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FOLLOWING our story of the opposition to the new massive 600 berths marina on the Oxford Canal, comes news of a 'Stop the Monster Marina at Onley' campaign against the proposed development.
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FOLLOWING failure to gain influence in the new Canal & River Trust (CART) which replaced British Waterways a month ago, the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) National Chairman, Clive Henderson, is to step down, writes Allan Richards.
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