IT IS less than 12 months since I reported on the beginnings of the new 'super marina' at Onley on the Oxford Canal, with much pegging out both on the towpath (for the entrance) and in the fields adjoining, writes Kevin McNiff.
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BROADCASTER John Sergeant is again taking to the canals in a second series of Barging Around Britain, but says he is keeping away from boating enthusiasts who are complaining of him using the word barge instead of narrowboat and suchlike.
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THE Environmental Agency is clamping down on the owners of unregistered boats on the Thames, taking boaters to court.
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THE Friends of Dawn Rose, are allowing organisations to take part in a sponsored pull of the 70ft narrowboat to enable them to arrange a 'pull a canal boat' to raise funds for their organisations.
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I SEE the Bargee Travellers Association has once again conned the BBC into another sob story of a family with a continuous cruiser licence bemoaning the fact that he [the family] has children locally at school but has to move his boat, writes James Henry.
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I am sorry to to contradict Edwin Deacon when he says that Canal & River Trust can count the 10,000 that go to Crick Show as visitors to the towpath, as they are not.
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WE HAVE learned that the telephone survey used to calculate visitor numbers for Canal & River Trust has been scrapped, as it was not showing enough visitors!
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THE Waterways Manager for Central Shires, Darren Green, is leaving Canal & River Trust after 16 years.
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My wife and I have just had a few days meandering down the Grand Union Canal towards Berkhamsted, and though I would like to confirm Canal & River Trust's calculation of its visitor numbers, I'm very much afraid that I cannot.
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Do you think that perhaps CaRT is calculating those hundreds of millions of visitors by multiplying the number at boat shows?
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