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Cotswold Canals want £10m

WITH a lack of private funding Stroud District Council is looking for other funding to complete the restoration of the waterway through Stroud.

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Published: 12 July 2012

The need for the 14 days mooring

Jan and Malcolm Gunningham wonder why it is necessary to define 14 day moorings. Having taken advantage of such moorings in the past let me offer a scenario where they fit a need, writes Tony Collins.

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Published: 12 July 2012

Email: Mooring question

A reaction at last to our letter. However Bill Gill does not say what answer he got from CART to the 14 day mooring question.

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Published: 11 July 2012

No let-up with floods

THE continuing downpours are keeping the river levels well up, with boaters at river moorings completely stuck.

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Published: 11 July 2012

Hire boat burnt-out

HIRERS faced with a flooded Thames vacated their boat on Duke's Cut at the bottom of the Oxford Canal, as they could not return the boat to the Thames base, after completing their holiday.

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Published: 11 July 2012

A good festival

THE popular Stratford River Festival continues to grow, attracting more visitors, boats and traders than ever before and, luckily for this year, the weather stayed dry throughout the weekend, writes John Glock.

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Published: 11 July 2012

48 hours only near businesses

AT A Seminar held at the Crick Show to introduce the new CART, I raised the points about 14 days moorings, writes Bill Gill.
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Published: 11 July 2012

Canal floods town again

FOR the second time in days the Rochdale Canal has flooded Hebden Bridge following a 90 minutes downpour, with all the Yorkshire navigable rivers in flood.

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Published: 11 July 2012

Black Prince at Paddington

ALL those Black Prince boats moored on Paddington Arm, are not breaking the Olympics embargo after all—they are there for a purpose.

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Published: 11 July 2012

Trees falling

THE high winds, coupled with soggy ground due to too much rain are causing many canal-side trees to fall.

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Published: 09 July 2012

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