I AM at present moored in Birmingham by Sheepcote Street Bridge. My wife and I were returning from a very pleasant afternoon libation at The Malt House when we heard the familiar ting-ting, 'scuse me, get out of the way! Writes Ray Watkins.
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THE period that boaters can now stay in Liverpool after using the link has been reduced from 14 days to seven days, Canal & River Trust has decided.
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THE Nene at Northampton will take on an entirely different outlook over the next few years with Northampton University building a new water-side campus.
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THE development company Stoford Living wanted to turn the Grade II listed Boat Gauging House at Tipton on the BCN into homes, but its plan failed.
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THE problems at Banbury are no different from other ‘honeypot', sites with regard to liveaboards, let alone continuous moorers, writes Martin Howes.
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KEITH is of course right to say that something needs to be done about the sort of behaviour he has encountered, writes Martin Cox.
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Julie Smith states 'I have seen no evidence to suggest that Jackie Lewis deliberately misled the Ombudsman Committee'. (Boss did not deliberately mislead.)
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) released information last week contradicting the claim by its Chairman, Tony Hales, in its 2015/15 Annual Report that it had more than 11,000 ‘Friends', writes Allan Richards.
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A BOAT exploded at Bray Lock at Taplow on the Thames today (Sunday) with a total of seven people being taken to hospital for treatment.
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I did consider calling the police [at Banbury] but decided against it due to past experience in calling them about problems on the waterway—what proof did I have, would be their first question and if I have none, nor any witnesses then all that would happen would be that I might just might get a crime number.
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