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The terror towpath

IT WAS during 2015 that the American company Strava introduced its cyclist time trials to our towpaths, with the one by the Kennet & Avon Canal in Bath now becoming extremely dangerous to both pedestrians and animals by this activity.

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Published: 01 July 2016

Email: Illegal Thames boats

I was most pleased to read that the Environment Agency had managed to get rid of all those boats that were illegally moored on the Thames at Richmond.

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Published: 30 June 2016

More facilities at Wigrams

THERE are now more facilities for the moorers at Wigrams Turn Marina at Napton at the junction of the Oxford and Grand Union canals.

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Published: 30 June 2016

More legislation to stop illegal Thames mooring

THREE MP's have been brought in by the Environment Agency to consider legislation to prevent boats illegally mooring on the Thames between Kingston and Richmond.

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Published: 29 June 2016

Blame the overstayers

WITH reference to your article by Graham Peers. This is exactly what CaRT do and have done in the 22 years that I have held a Bridgewater Licence, writes Mark Dawson.

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Published: 29 June 2016

Bridgewater—over-stringent circumstances

BOTH your correspondents Peter Gregory and Graham Peers overstate their case [concerning the introduction of Bridgewater Canal fees] even though I am generally in sympathy, writes Mike Todd.

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Published: 29 June 2016

Annoying no return

I FEEL I must point out to Graham Piers that Bridgewater boats are not allowed to use CaRT waters without paying, writes Jenny MacGillivray.

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Published: 29 June 2016

CaRT should reciprocate

With Peel charging for us to use the Bridgewater Canal, that it knows is essential to get up to the Lancashire and Yorkshire canals avoiding the tidal Trent, then Canal & River Trust should reciprocate. writes Graham Peers.

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Published: 27 June 2016

The Bridgewater charges

I HAVE a share in a narrowboat based at Bartington Wharf, at the top end of the Trent & Mersey, so the new charges will obviously have some effect, writes Peter Gregory.

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Published: 27 June 2016

How did they miss the hole?

LOOKING at the Canal & River Trust's contractors' Kier, website, it would appear that building is its main concern, living accommodation, shops and the like and even motorways, writes James Henry.

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Published: 27 June 2016

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