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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The Leeds & Liverpool Canal Methodist Swing Bridge (15) at Maghull is now operational again.
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