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Email: Need more boaters

I can commiserate with the boaters who had the broad locks to themselves through Leicester, as I have done it many times and only managed to get someone sharing once.

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Published: 15 August 2016

Testing lock beams

WITH the failure of balance beams, there is a rudimentary testing of balance beams (and lock gates) in a simple process that I suspect most boaters do subconsciously when they operate the lock, writes Ralph Freeman, and suggests:

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Published: 15 August 2016

'Times' blow to the Trust

A PIECE in the country's leading newspaper, The Times, complaining about Canal & River Trust's waterways, will come as a blow to the Trust as it does its best to cultivate the newspapers.

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Published: 15 August 2016

Vandals wreck 'Monty' lock

A LOCK on the Montgomery Canal has been put completely out of action, it is believed by vandals.

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Published: 15 August 2016

Better in Leicester

I SPOKE at length to a lady called Claire on her narrowboat Ursa Major, who  I met in Loughborough, when getting onto our boat. She is a resident in Derby and keeps her boat at Mercia Marina in Willington, writes Paul Lillie.

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Published: 15 August 2016

K&A worth the risk

GERRY VARLEY asks whether it is 'worth the risk' of boating on the Kennet & Avon. I would emphatically say yes—it's a beautiful canal, writes David Williams.

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Published: 12 August 2016

Waterways Ombudsman issues Annual Report

THE Waterways Ombudsman, Andrew Walker, and the Waterways Ombudsman Committee, have issued their combined Annual Reports for 2015/16.

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Published: 12 August 2016

K&A won't be open

YOU boaters lined-up at Fobney Lock on the Kennet & Avon Canal ready for it to re-open this morning (Friday) as promised by Canal & River Trust are going to be unlucky—for oh no it won't!

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Published: 12 August 2016

Email: 60ft on Huddersfield Broad Canal

HAVE just read the comment that a narrowboat over 57ft cannot navigate Huddersfield Broad.
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Published: 11 August 2016

Lock beams should be inspected urgently

ON THE matter of the rotten beams, it seems to me that it's not something that would happen overnight undetected, writes, Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 11 August 2016

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