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Boaters don't want wine bar

THE plans to turn the Barge Inn at Honeystreet on the Kennet & Avon Canal into a wine bar has met with great opposition.

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Published: 03 November 2017

How arrogant is that?

So not only can CaRT fail to repair and keep the system anywhere near an acceptable level and produce highly questionable statistics to try to justify its existence, it can now fail to comply with the law but give itself dispensation. How arrogant is that?

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Published: 03 November 2017

CaRT operating below minimum safety standards

THE Canal & River Trust how now published a list of where it is operating below below minimum safety standards, admitting it has now reached over 1,000 instances.

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Published: 01 November 2017

Stuck on the Leicester Section

A FRIEND told me about your site and that someone had gone up the Soar to get to Norton Junction but learned it was closed having reaching the outskirts of Leicester, and having to turn back, writes Bill Grant.

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Published: 01 November 2017

Not an emergency

IN RESPONSE to our comment concerning Stan and Steph White waiting five days for a call-out to attend a leaking stern gland, Stephanie Horton from River Canal Rescue replies:

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Published: 01 November 2017

Wildlife plan for Avon island

PERSHORE Lock Island on the Avon is to be transformed into a visitor friendly wildlife haven should the public get behind the scheme.

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Published: 01 November 2017

CaRT boating consultation does not allow suggestions

We recently completed the so called CaRT boating consultation. (After several phone calls to obtain the email link), writes Stewart Downs.

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Published: 30 October 2017

Tons of rubbish dumped at Harecastle

LORRY loads of rubbish have been dumped by the side of the canal at the eastern end of Harecastle Tunnel.

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Published: 30 October 2017

Man jailed for molesting woman on boat

A MAN that jumped on to a narrowboat moored at Caversham on the Thames and groped a woman on board has been jailed.

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Published: 30 October 2017

Victor: Shroppie 'closed until further notice'

THEY are the disturbing words from Canal & River Trust concerning the problems with the Shropshire Union Canal at Bunbury.

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Published: 29 October 2017

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