LAST weekend my wife and I travelled from our house to our boat at Droitwich Spa Marina writes Peter Ponting.
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WHEN a local equestrian centre started to erect a fence inside the existing fence of the moorings at Slapton below Linslade on the Grand Union Canal, the moorers were up-in-arms, with the dispute turning nasty.
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MY FIRST experience of using narrow canal locks was in 1961 as a ‘spare body' on a pair of Willow Wren boats. I had been used to barges on the Trent but narrow locks required different techniques, writes Mike Stone.
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THE recent theft of a boat from Mercia Marina has many features in common with another boat theft a month or so earlier from Kings Bromley Marina, writes David Hymers.
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IT IS ALWAYS sad to read of the death of anyone and my sympathies go out to all those affected by the death of Alan Green with the sinking of nb Sonskit. Especially so to his mother who witnessed it and to whom it must have been a terrifying experience, writes Derek Willetts.
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THE Canal & River Trust claims to have double the visits per year to the waterways compared to all of the National Parks of the whole country put together!
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THE former boat burglar Allan Campbell is back in business again breaking into boats, and is wanted by the police for a series of thefts from boats in South Oxfordshire.
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IT WAS five weeks ago that the editor of narrowboatworld reported that the bottom gates were out of alignment on Shardlow Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal, with nothing done we discovered last Tuesday.
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A BENEFIT of Canal & River Trust's enforcement team was shown when two of them were able to discover a stolen boat and re-unite it with its owner.
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