THE boat hire company, College Cruisers, that has been operating from its yard at the bottom of the Oxford Canal for 40 years has had to give up two thirds of its premises in the middle of its season.
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FOLLOWING concerns expressed by the National Association of Boat Owners (NABO), Waterways Ombudsman, Andrew Walker, has claimed that he is independent despite reporting direct to Canal & River Trust and not operating under rules of an independent scheme, writes Allan Richards.
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CHURCH Minshull Aqueduct Marina on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal recently held its 5th charity fund raiser weekend for Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, raising approximately £1,000 over the course of two days.
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I can confirm what you said in your article about Mercia Marina, they do look after the boaters.
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ALL IS becoming clear. Richard Parry has spotted, or has been informed about, what I will call the LBC, The 'Lazy Buggers Charter', that has lain at the centre of BW/CaRT's maintenance procedures for many years, writes Ralph Freeman.
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ON A visit to Bristol recently it was a pleasure to see so much activity in the floating harbour, mostly ferries and trip boats. writes Alan Tilbury.
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RECENTLY paid for our boat licence and noticed the slogan after the title Canal & River Trust on its letter heading.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has come under renewed criticism following the narrowboatworld article showing that its Waterways Ombudsman scheme is a sham (Waterways Ombudsman Committee scrapped), writes Allan Richards.
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THOUGH cyclists do not tend to get good publicity in narrowboatworld, a group of them using the Trent & Mersey Canal towpath have just raised £2,480, making a total of £15,000 for the Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group.
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IT ALL started with a chance remark from an old boater in his seventies: "I miss those paddles on the Montgomery canal called Dingy Dawdle, is there somewhere else we can go?" Writes Barry Witts.
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