IT WAS a hire boat that caused the damaged to the top lock at Caen Hill Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal, putting the flight out of action over the whole Bank Holiday.
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WORK on the Chesterfield Canal still continues, even with the threat of HS2 hanging over it, with the last two weeks seeing a Waterway Recovery Group camp at Staveley.
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THE condemnation of Canal & River Trust's John Dodwell by boater Graham Beven (Boater tackles John Dodwell) has led to an Inland Waterways Association (IWA) member cancelling her subscription.
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AN OUT of work boater who lived in an unlicenced narrowboat faces having to pay £76,000 after a drawn-out legal dispute.
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Peter Ponting wrote: 'Last June, we were amazed to see a couple throw a three seater settee into the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, then wave to us. A prime example of towpath users in that area'.
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I myself am one of the 'no lot', but I am not a continuous moorer as the phrase goes, I have a home mooring on the Caldon Canal.
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After spending several weeks on the Thames and in the London area generally I feel I really must write and congratulate the lock keepers, including the volunteers.
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THE Basingstoke Canal re-opened in 1991—we even attended the celebrations—but every time we have tried to cruise it in the past something has stopped us—usually shortage of water or the Thames being in flood.
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WORK is progressing on the repair to the damaged lock wall on the lock on the 'Wolverhampton 21', as John Kelly's report shows.
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I have just been reading the 'Volunteers must pay' by Jimmy Lockwood. I find it incredible that people working within CaRT can be so far out of touch with the expectations of others. I thought I had seen it all, I think I must have now! Writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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