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What's the rush?

I CAN'T  help but think speeding boaters are just not understanding the problem, writes Maffi Oxford.
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Published: 22 October 2014

After 16 years...

LIKE your other contributors are telling, we too have now finished a season on the waterways, our sixteenth, writes Holden Squires.

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Published: 22 October 2014

Stabbed at Thames-side park

A MAN was stabbed on the grounds of the Thames-side park at Abingdon yesterday (Sunday) evening, and died from his injuries.

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Published: 20 October 2014

Another idiot

THE German Nico von Lerchenfel, thinks he is rather clever 'wakeboarding' the London canals for three days, leaping over lock gates into empty locks and such like.

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Published: 20 October 2014

Speeding boats—facts and figures

HAVING read several ‘statements' about speeding boats, the wash and damage they cause and the various ‘solutions' offered, I thought it time to throw in some reality checks, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 20 October 2014

Own boat speeding!

Saw a Black Prince boat doing exactly the same thing [speeding] on the Shroppie, just not quick enough to take a photo, writes Linda Andrews of Cheshire Cat Narrowboat Holidays.

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Published: 20 October 2014

'Got you'—twice!

WITH regard to the the speed of Grace of Napton Narrowboats, last month I was passed not once but twice by an ABC Leisure boat, out of Gayton doing exactly the same level of speed, writes John Howard.

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Published: 20 October 2014

Stoppage in the making?

WHEN passing through the three locks at Soulbury this past week on the Grand Union Canal, I noticed a rather large hole had appeared on the lock side of the bottom lock, writes John Howard.

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Published: 20 October 2014

Emma's Dream

I FOUNDED Emma's Dream in memory of my beautiful daughter Emma Kathryn, who in September 2010 I found hanging in my previous home bedroom, writes Julia Okeefe.

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Published: 20 October 2014

Bending the facts

EVERY so often there's a story on BBC News about a subject I already know quite a bit about, and all too often its version of reality seems to be unsettlingly different from the one I know. It really makes you wonder how much you can trust all its other stories, writes David Davis.

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Published: 19 October 2014

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