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Safety of boat crews

BRITISH Waterways has been the guardian of our canal heritage for the past 60 years. Latterly it has insisted that it has the responsibility to keep structures as close as possible to the state in which they were first built, writes Mike Stone.

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Published: 16 May 2012

Email: Doing it right

We left our moorings at Ventnor Farm Marina and went through Calcutt Locks where we shared a lock with first time hirers from Calcutt Boats.

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Published: 16 May 2012

Not a national treasure

At the moment I'm visiting friends in Kent, so being allowed to log on to the site and reading about the 98% lark, I asked them if they believed the canals a national treasure, writes James Henry.

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Published: 16 May 2012

Robin exceeds himself

BRITISH Waterways Chief Executive, Robin Evans, has given some more surprising statistics, this time to the Inquiry in the House of Lords on the transfer orders to take British Waterways into a charity.

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Published: 16 May 2012

The importance of narrowboat Ernest

THE narrowboat Ernest is taking Bedfordshire afloat for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Sunday, 3rd June.

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Published: 16 May 2012

Decapitation guaranteed

ROD Fox's picture of the new 'safety' rails at Falling Sands Lock only tells part of the story, writes David Hymers.

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Published: 16 May 2012

Destroyed boat to be replaced

REGULAR readers may remember the report in narrowboatworld of the boat used by the Clear Cut Conservation group being torched and destroyed, but now a new one is to be built.

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Published: 14 May 2012

Cash for Mon & Brec

A TOTAL of £1.5m funding is allowing further restoration of the Mon & Brec, that has now started.

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Published: 14 May 2012

A silly chugger?

SOME weeks ago British Waterways held a press briefing on its plans for fundraising as the Canal & River Trust (CART). That press briefing confirmed several narrowboatworld reports that CART would not be a membership organisation.

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Published: 13 May 2012

More Buckingham Canal restoration

AYLESBURY Vale District Council has now given planning permission for the restoration of a stretch of the Buckingham Canal at Bourton Meadow.

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Published: 13 May 2012

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