A FEW days ago Eckington School, close to the Chesterfield Canal, had a boat naming ceremony, where its Head Teacher Patrick Cummings, officially named the school boat Madeline.
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I FEEL that the time is right for me to drag out my soap-box and give vent to my anguish over a couple of items that appeared in Monday's narrowboatworld, writes Orph Mable.
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THE pernicious alien plant Crassula Helmsi has been discovered growing in the exposed mud area of two Grand Union Canal feed reservoirs.
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THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) apology to Tony Dunkley is not enough (The law of unexpected consequence), writes Allan Richards.
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NOT really the official opening, but the new Lock House Coffee Kiosk at the old Sawley Lock cottage opens for business this morning, Wednesday.
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SOMETIMES it is very easy to assume that all the news involving boats and waterways is everything other than the preferred image of the lazy, hazy days of summer that first attracted people like us to a life afloat, writes Eric Weiss.
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THE seemingly never ending list of boating connected business to go into liquidation has been further increased with the long established Nottingham Boat Sales going bust.
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Adding my penny worth to the volunteers situation, I have to ask where are those 126 volunteers that their superintendent boasts about?
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I read that Wyvern Shipping who own the hire boat that sank in Kegworth Deep say that the crew were experienced boaters, which I very much doubt, writes T. Lang.
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NEW powers are being introduced by various councils whose land borders the Thames, to move illegally moored boats.
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