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No pump-out or water for 'Olympic' moorers

THOUGH boaters are being charged what they see as exorbitant charges for moorings at the designated Olympic sites, they are complaining they do not have basic facilities.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Boy drowns in Avon

THE body of a 14 years old boy has been recovered from the Avon near Saltford Weir and Lock below Bath.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Summit restoration for celebration

RECENT work on the Wey & Arun Canal was centred on the summit pound, with the Wey & Arun Canal Trust hoping to be able to run boats trips, as part of its 200th anniversary celebrations of the original opening of the Wey & Arun Canal.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Telegraph article on the Web

BOATERS wishing to see the Daily Telegraph article concerning the move to the Canal & River Trust can now read it on the Web.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Boat hire businesses in Doldrums

THOUGH we are told that the boat hire business is booming, and making up for a fall in private boating, research has found the opposite to be true, as Kevin McNiff has discovered.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Bridgewater security crackdown

IT HAS been confirmed, as narrowboatworld foretold earlier this year, that security checks will be made on boaters on the Bridgewater Canal, again because of the Olympics.

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Published: 23 July 2012

Wide swathe of wild flowers lost

THE desire for visitors to the towpaths and the resulting mowing, has caused objections at a 10 feet swathe of wild flowers having been decimated by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 23 July 2012

Worsening condition of the canals

THE the comments by David Dare in the Daily Telegraph feature on the state of the waterways, where he states the canals are in good condition, have brought responses from boaters using the waterways.

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Published: 23 July 2012

Body in Braunston Marina

A MAN'S body has been recovered from Braunston Marina at the junction of the Grand Union and Oxford canals.

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Published: 21 July 2012

Police investigate boat fire

ARSON is suspected as the cause of a narrowboat fire at Longport on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

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Published: 20 July 2012

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