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NABO is not supporting CaRT mooring project

THE National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) comments in the July edition on the Towpath Mooring Project recently published by Canal & River Trust (CaRT).

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Published: 07 August 2014

Another lock beam breaks

YOU would think that the massive lock beams on the waterways would be impossible to fail, but yet another has broken off and closed a canal.

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Published: 07 August 2014

Dry dock rescued

IT WAS over 40 years ago that the dry dock on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley was last used, but it is now back in business.

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Published: 07 August 2014

Keeping the waterways alive

I THINK Mick Fitzgibbons (in 'An Epic Conundrum') has flagged up a very good point indeed, writes Suzanne McLeod.

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Published: 07 August 2014

Some get away with it

THERE are strong objections to boat traders who have obtained a licence to sell limited snacks and drinks to passing walkers and cyclists but now change their narrowboat to a broad beam and turned it into a full blown café even selling alcohol.

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Published: 07 August 2014

Email: Illegal trading

We moor at Victoria Pit on the Macclesfield Canal, opposite our mooring is a boat called The Tea Cosy who has set up as a café with chairs and tables, serving tea and cakes from their boat.
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Published: 07 August 2014

Email: Death defying mooring

Would someone please explain to me why, having just paid £948 (after prompt payment discount) to navigate our canal system, I have just passed 4.2 miles of silky smooth asphalt being laid on the towpath from Selly Oak to Kings Norton Junction on the Birmingham & Worcester Canal?

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Published: 07 August 2014

Beauty at Mercia

The latest tenant for the new Broadwalk development at Mercia Marina is a beauty therapist  Anna Bovey who will open her new salon at the premises.

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Published: 07 August 2014

An extra 3m

THE Canal & River Trust has announced £3m additional investment in its waterways, with most of it on dredging.

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Published: 07 August 2014

An epic conundrum

IT IS a conundrum of epic proportions that will ultimately decide the outcome for the inland waterways. The Trust has finally awakened, if only to acknowledge the precipice that the age profile of the boat owning population holds for the future of the inland waterways, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 07 August 2014

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