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Is it me?

IS IT ME, or is this CART thing starting to get a little ‘woolly'? Asks Orph Mable.
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Published: 17 May 2012

Email: Risk assessment

I would dearly love to see the Risk Assessment for the new guillotine on the Staffs & Worcs.

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Published: 17 May 2012

'Guillotine' RSJ to be removed

SUCH was the furore caused by the narrowboatworld warnings of the dangers of the RSJ  installed at neck height on Falling Sands Lock that it is to be removed.

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Published: 17 May 2012

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

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  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
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  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
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  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
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  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed

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