IT WAS River Canal Rescue (RCR) that raised the lock-stricken boat out of Wash House Lock at Bath after the emergency assistance firm was called in to help.
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LATE last week, I received a copy of the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) guide to its new Operations & Asset Management structure as from 1st November, writes Allan Richards.
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OUR Keith Gudgin is at present moored on the two days moorings on the Grand Union Canal, with an enforcement officer leaving him in a quandary, and writes:
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IT IS most certainly a new approach, with Canal & River Trust actually asking boaters when it should repair two problem locks on the Rochdale Canal.
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THIEVES broke into the Canal & River Trust's maintenance boats at Atherstone last night (Wednesday) and stole all the equipment.
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WHILE we were out cruising our boat, enjoying the experience even if the weather was at times very changeable, there was however one very disturbing aspect that I have noticed more and more over the last few years, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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AS A continuous cruiser who has been such for nine years come next March, I hope you will include my observations of why from time to time I could not move within the required 14 days, and that people espying such overstaying can understand, writes Malcolm Portend.
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A NEW project has been launched to created corridors along the canals and rivers in Cheshire 'to allow birds, mammals and insects to move more freely'.
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SUCH are the problems with people discarding invasive non-native plants into canals and rivers, that the government has brought in new rules whereby people could receive anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos), and companies be fined for failing to control their spread.
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THE lack of dredging of the Wey at Godalming last winter caused terrible flooding that ruined many homes, so it really was necessary to prevent it happening again.
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