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No life jacket on tidal river

I MOOR my narrowboat at Stockwith on the Chesterfield Canal, and obviously use the tidal Trent very often, my log showing ten times in 2015, and your correspondents comments regarding the wearing of life jackets bring me to write about these, writes Paul Levens.

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Published: 07 January 2016

Another Leicester Riverside Festival

THERE is to be another Leicester Riverside Festival this year on the Mile Straight of the Grand Union Canal in the city.

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Published: 07 January 2016

CaRT Consultation cock-up

A CONSULTATION on proposed changes to mooring stay times at four Canal & River Trust locations has been partially abandoned after boaters pointed out errors in the consultation document.

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Published: 07 January 2016

Email: Should be compulsory

It is okay Pete Early telling us that there are now notices at tunnel entrances stating we should wear life jackets, but there are lots of things the new health and safety regime tell us we should do, but don't.

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Published: 06 January 2016

£1m fine for Wendover Arm pollution

THAMES WATER has been fined a massive £1m for allowing repeated discharges of pollutions into the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

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Published: 06 January 2016

Floods cause significant damage

THE recent flooding of the northern waterways has caused significant damage, especially to bridges, that need urgent repair and in some cases being completely rebuilt.

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Published: 06 January 2016

Email: Tunnel safety

Victor is wrong by suggesting that CaRT have done nothing after the Coroner's report into the Harecastle death. Every tunnel we have passed through since October (we spent the summer on the Fens) has a new sign advising boaters to wear a life jacket when going through.

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Published: 06 January 2016

Volunteer lock keeper cover-up

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) report into the hanging-up incident of historic narrowboat Flamingo (Only one witness statement) suggests that a review of of Volunteer Lock Keeper (VLK) training was undertaken.

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Published: 04 January 2016

Slacken those lines

IF YOU moor on a river, there is some wise advice from the Thames Environment Agency River Conditions website, Roger Fox tells us.

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Published: 04 January 2016

CaRT to rebuild flood damaged bridge

A council is demanding that Canal & River Trust pay for the rebuilding of a  bridge damaged in the recent flooding of the Calder & Hebble Navigation.

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Published: 04 January 2016

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