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Email: Dismayed at cyclist

I write in response to Geoff Bennett's email 'Boaters Off'. I would just like to say, as a cyclist myself, how dismayed I am at the attitude displayed by the young female cyclist he encountered.

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Published: 15 August 2011

Email: Not surprised at water shortage

Having just read the latest issue of narrowboatworld I was not surprised to read of the water shortage problem. When was the last time British Waterways dredged its reservoirs?

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Published: 15 August 2011

New hope for Sheffield Basin

THE failed council plans to regenerate Sheffield Basin on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation are being taken up by a private company.

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Published: 15 August 2011

The Book Boat

WE HAVE plenty of narrowboats selling various items, with the Cheese Boat and the Fudge Boat being the two most well know, but a little known one is the Book Boat.

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Published: 15 August 2011

Help wanted over boater's death

WARWICKSHIRE Police have told us they would like to hear from boaters who cruised the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal between Lock 50 and Bridge 62A, or anyone who moored alongside the canal in the vicinity on Saturday 6th August.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Another drowns

A STUDENT  who had drunk a bottle of wine, five vodka shots and a number of cocktails, who could hardly stand, stumbled by the Avon in Bath, fell in and drowned.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Don't judge us all

DISCONCERTED by the comment of Geoff Bennett [Boater's Off] telling how he was accosted by a female cyclist telling that towpaths were only for cyclists, has prompted a fellow cyclist to put matters in perspective.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Email: Those spires

Regarding  the art installation on the Oxford, the canal at that point is probably wide enough to accommodate the spires.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Man shot on towpath

IT SEEMS our towpaths are becoming even more dangerous, for though muggings are now common-place with the occasional person pushed in the water we now risk getting shot!

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Published: 12 August 2011

Confusing spending with costs

The point is the National Association of Boat Owners is confusing spending with costs [Little increase in boating costs—NABO] writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 12 August 2011

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