EARLY each year, Canal & River Trust (CaRT) and before it British Waterways blames nesting birds for its inability to deal with the very routine task of vegetation management, writes Allan Richards.
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FOLLOWING on the scheme introduced on the Kennet & Avon Canal where boaters are being sent text messages when overstaying, the system is now being introduced in London.
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THERE is little doubt that what Mick Fitzgibbons writes about older people on the waterways is very true, as over the past two months of extensive cruising the vast majority of boaters I have seen are obviously retired, writes James Henry.
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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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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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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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I THINK Mick Fitzgibbons (in 'An Epic Conundrum') has flagged up a very good point indeed, writes Suzanne McLeod.
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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