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Boat numbers down 9%

NOTWITHSTANDING the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Annual General Meeting being told that boat number are up, its own documentation shows that this is untrue, with boat number actually falling again in 2013/14, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 July 2014

Email: Same speed

With regards to cyclists speeding along the towpath, there is of course a simple answer to the problem.

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Published: 10 July 2014

Coventry Basin not safe anymore

MANY boaters—us included—have moored overnight in secluded Coventry Canal Basin after cruising the graffiti littered waterway, but it is not safe anymore.

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Published: 10 July 2014

CaRT's harassment of boaters

I'M WRITING this article to offer moral support to Tony Ball and Tony Dunkley. As widely reported in narrowboatworld,  I too was singled out for harassment by CaRT, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 10 July 2014

Email: To the Continent

I just had to reply to the article by Ian Campbell. Another knocker of our beautiful waterways who has gone off to the Continent!

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Published: 09 July 2014

You can stop the harassment

YOU have published a few articles recently about people being harassed by CaRT enforcement and recently recommended keeping a log of the movements a boat makes, but you should be aware that a logging system exists for just that purpose and is being used on the canals, writes John Quinlan.

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Published: 09 July 2014

Hirer training at ABC

I would like to comment on this article on behalf of ABC Leisure Group to set the record straight, writes Edward Helps.

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Published: 09 July 2014

This week's first closure

THE first closure this week was the Rochdale Canal on Monday, that is still closed at Kay Lane Lock (64) at Chadderton.

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Published: 09 July 2014

Make our towpaths safer

There is a petition by Laura Hughes to get Canal & River Trust to make some effort to reduce the level of the problem of speeding cyclists on our towpaths, Mick Fitzgibbons tells us.

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Published: 09 July 2014

Guilty until proved innocent

A GOOD many boaters I know that have decided to 'cruise off into the sunset of their lives', in effect live the 'dream' promised by glowing advertising, are retired or semi-retired, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 09 July 2014

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