THE Kennet & Avon is closed at Crofton, and will remain so 'until further notice.
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AS MY regular readers will know we were thwarted from our intention of making it to Bugsworth Basin by our friends at CaRT deciding not to open the Peak Forest Canal as promised—but what's new, eh?
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I think Eric Weiss (Bargees collision course with CaRT) has summed things up very well there, writes Martin Brooks.
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TO FURTHER the attraction of Mercia Marina moorings, six commercial units have been released with the Mug Tug being the latest to take up 'residence'.
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WHILST not wishing to make waves I have to ask how it is that the 14 days rule for boaters mooring on a towpath, as laid out in the 1995 Waterways Act, can be so easily changed, purely to suit the purpose of the Trust? Asks Pam Pickett.
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IN ITS proposed changes to legislation Canal & River Trust refer (endlessly) to ‘waterway'. writes Jimmy Lockwood.
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I FIND it strange how the National Bargees Travellers Association and supporters, seem set on a permanent collision course with CaRT by claiming they are being intimidated with threats of ‘eviction and intimidation', writes Eric Weiss.
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A VOLUNTEER lock keeper was quite proud at getting a quad bike for getting up and down the locks at Devizes, but just could not control it, and ended up with it plunging into a lock.
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A PRANK by the owner of the narrowboat Tiger Moth, moored on the Thames at Reading caused a full terror alert with police and army rushing to intercept it.
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THE man who murdered his 'friend', cut up his body and dumped it in a canal in a suitcase has been sentenced to 19 years in jail.
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