I AM a continuous cruiser narrowboater and at present I am moored on a 14 days visitor mooring at Linslade/Leighton Buzzard on the Grand Union Canal. writes Keith Gudgin.
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THE Floating Bookshop row is set to escalate with even the BBC now reporting the story (CaRT to close floating bookshop), writes Allan Richards.
A BOATER died in his boat after it caught fire during the early hours of Monday morning, with fire fighters suspecting its wood burning stove.
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THE body of an angler was discovered on Saturday in Netham Lock in Bristol where boats from the Kennet & Avon Canal access the Floating Harbour.
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LIVING on the canals and being a keen observer of nature I'm somewhat bemused by the idea of a 'wildlife corridor', writes Ralph Freeman.
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THE cruiser belonging to actor Richard Cordery was broken into, its interior wrecked then set adrift at a canal centre on the Basingstoke Canal.
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A VICIOUS attack by a loose fighting dog on a Pomeranian that was on a lead on a towpath, resulted in it being blinded.
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LONDON'S only floating bookshop, Word on the Water, may be forced to close following a Canal & River Trust (CaRT) refusal of its application for a permanent mooring in Paddington Basin, writes Allan Richards.
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Those of us old enough to remember the involvement of English Nature in the Pocklington Canal and it's lack of restoration will fear the latest proposals that give them more influence in the waterways in general.
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