THE big con indeed. The Bargees Association is getting gullible people to sign its petition that its boater members are being 'illegally removed from their homes', and that Canal & River Trust is 'pressuring boat families into homelessness', when it is doing nothing of the sort.
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SATURDAY is the start of Drowning Prevention Week, and as boaters we are all acutely aware of the numbers of people who end up in the water, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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THE Grand Union Canal flooded at both Stonebridge and Harlesden yesterday, Thursday, with water covering walkways and streets.
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YOBS have managed to obtain anti-vandal keys and drain the entire Wolverhampton Flight of 21 locks.
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THERE seems to be little point in maintaining the continuous moorer debate since it is getting nowhere, writes Kevin McNiff.
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WE HAVE moored a number of times over the past four years at Paddington Basin, and the developers' security are very much in charge on a day-to-day basis, writes Mike Todd.
WELL, almost on cue, the towpath maintenance gang have arrived to 'decimate' the canalside vegetation, less than one month since they were last here, writes John Hall.
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CONCERNING the moorings at Paddington Basin. First of all, for the last four or five years it's always been the case for us that there have been only one or two spaces left and sometimes one has to hang around up by the underground entrance and wait for a gap to appear. Very normal for London, writes Neil Trevithick.
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AS REGULAR readers will know we are not too enamoured by the many awards being given these days by so many organisations, but there is one award we feel is of significance, especially in view of recent comments and it concerning boaters.
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Well said Robert Hawkins (A local problem). CaRNT can't cope with the waterways' problems (lock failures and the like).
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