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Alrewas Festival

IF YOU are planning a cruise along the Trent & Mersey Canal towards the end of August there is the attraction of a week long Arts Festival at Alrewas.

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Published: 19 July 2014

Time for BOA?

WELL done our boating organisations in ensuring boaters' voices are heard by government (Associations want representation at inquiry), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 18 July 2014

Saved dog from drowning

I HAD a busy time last night, just before midnight my dogs started sounding off. I went out expecting to find someone hanging around when I heard a noise from the canal, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 18 July 2014

Trip boat and rubbish barge collide

A TRIP boat with over 100 people on board cruising the Thames in London collided with a barge towing rubbish, yesterday (Thursday) both coming to a halt.

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Published: 18 July 2014

Associations want representation at inquiry

BOATERS' associations are most concerned at the lack of boater representation at the proposed All Party Parliamentary Waterway's Group (APPWG) inquiry with the Waterways Minister Dan Rogerson.

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Published: 17 July 2014

This is diabolical

TO EVALUATE the progress of Canal & River Trust (CaRT) since its inception and to learn of its future plans, an enquiry is to be held by the All Party Parliamentary Waterways Group (APPWG).

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Published: 17 July 2014

More residentail berths

BRITISH Waterways Marinas Ltd (BWML), losing leisure boaters in the downturn, is now pushing for more residential berths, with its King's Marina at Newark on the Trent, including 10 more.

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Published: 17 July 2014

Boaters come first at Mercia

IT WAS five years ago, just after it had first opened, that we first visited Mercia Marina on the Trent & Mersey Canal, when its Manager Robert Neff told us 'everything we do is for the boaters, as they provide the money'.

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Published: 16 July 2014

More cash for Dudley project

THE Dudley Canal Trust have secured further funding towards its new Portal Project, receiving £100,000 from The Garfield Weston Foundation.

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Published: 16 July 2014

AWCC 50th rally

OVER 100 boats attended a rally to celebrate 50 years of the Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs (AWCC) at Knowle on the northern Grand Union canal last weekend, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 16 July 2014

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