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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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THE Wey & Arun Canal Trust has launched an appal for funds for a new bridge over the waterway that is at present blocked by a causeway.
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FIRSTLY, thank-you to all the boaters and other waterway users who I've met this year at the 12 open meetings that have taken place around the country, writes Richard Parry, Chief Executive Canal & River Trust.
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