I DO understand that supplying red diesel from the bank side has its drawbacks but I believe not supplying it from the bank side will have more drawbacks, write Maffi.
BOTH the gate and ground paddles of two Chesterfield Canal locks have been vandalised in Worksop on the off side.
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A BOATER was so drunk that he fell off his boat into the canal by Braunston Marina, but if that wasn't bad enough he has now been arrested for being drunk in charge of a boat, Graham Phillips tells us.
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CONCERNING the number of diesel retailers giving up the sale of the fuel after the varying tax increase, many blame the Association of Pleasure Craft Operators for the problem.
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OVER the whole system we hear of businesses stopping selling diesel to boaters, caused by a combination of the low profit margin coupled with increasing bureaucracy and the tax system.
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BOATERS are warned not to get off their boats between Bridge 60 and Bridge 61 on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Armitage.
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ALL over the system boaters are noticing the difference between the parts of the waterways where there is easy public access and the parts that only the boaters see.
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MANY boaters have contacted us showing their sympathy for the parents of the two years old boy who drowned in the reeds of the Northampton Arm earlier this week.
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A NEW detailed and illustrated map of the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal has been published giving information about the towpath in addition to the waterway.
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THIS somewhat battered boat, being towed, finally gave up the ghost and sank on Derwent Mouth moorings on the Trent on Monday, but was simply left for others to clear.
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