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Thames development to include Roux restaurant

A NEW residential development by the side of the Thames in Bray will include a Roux restaurant alongside their three star Michelin restaurant in the town.

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Published: 01 August 2017

Absurdities of educated idiots

THE piece on electric boats [Victor] prompts me to comment on the absurdities which so-called educated people (educated idiots) in ivory towers who make decisions based on their own perspective of life and assuming that everyone can comply with their decision, writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 01 August 2017

David: All in order (well, nearly)

HAVING  spent the last couple of months cruising from Great Haywood via Middlewich, Wigan, Liverpool, Manchester, Standedge Tunnel, Wakefield, Keadby, Newark, Shardlow and Fradley to Poleseworth I think I am in a fairly good position to comment on the state of the system, at least its northern parts.

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Published: 31 July 2017

Boatyard to create apprenticeship scheme

The historic Tooley's Boatyard at Banbury on the Oxford Canal is hoping to create an apprenticeship scheme to train budding boat engineers.

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Published: 31 July 2017

Aire & Calder closed again

WOODNOOK Lock on the Wakefield Branch of the Aire & Calder Navigation is out of action again.

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Published: 31 July 2017

Beams slowing cyclists?

These vandalised beams, were they slowing cyclists perhaps!

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Published: 31 July 2017

Victor: Narrowboats going electric?

THE 'all electric brigade' is now in full flow promising all electric vehicles and even one company working on electric lorries, so are we in their sights?  I ask.

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Published: 30 July 2017

Vandals saw off replacement lock beam

WHAT seems like a senseless act of vandalism, the new lock balance beam replacing the one sawn off one on the Walsall Canal has also been sawn off and taken.

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Published: 28 July 2017

Blanket ban on canoes in tunnels?

IS THE tunnel clear [for canoeists]? That's an interesting conundrum, writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 28 July 2017

EA backs down over 'night time' moorings

THERE is no doubt that David Mercer's article in narrowboatworld about it charging for overnight moorings on the Thames, when it should not, has had an effect.

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Published: 28 July 2017

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