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Email: Looking after boaters

I can confirm what you said in your article about Mercia Marina, they do look after the boaters.

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Published: 28 July 2014

Lazy Buggers Charter?

ALL IS becoming clear. Richard Parry has spotted, or has been informed about, what I will call the LBC, The 'Lazy Buggers Charter', that has lain at the centre of BW/CaRT's maintenance procedures for many years, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 28 July 2014

Boats at Bristol

ON A visit to Bristol recently it was a pleasure to see so much activity in the floating harbour, mostly ferries and trip boats. writes Alan Tilbury.

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Published: 28 July 2014

Victor: It says it all

RECENTLY paid for our boat licence and noticed the slogan after the title Canal & River Trust on its letter heading.

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Published: 27 July 2014

Empire building

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has come under renewed criticism following the narrowboatworld article showing that its Waterways Ombudsman scheme is a sham (Waterways Ombudsman Committee scrapped), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 26 July 2014

Cyclists raise £15,000

THOUGH cyclists do not tend to get good publicity in narrowboatworld, a group of them using the Trent & Mersey Canal towpath have just raised £2,480, making a total of £15,000 for the Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group.

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Published: 26 July 2014

Boats on the Newport Canal

IT ALL started with a chance remark from an old boater in his seventies: "I miss those paddles on the Montgomery canal called Dingy Dawdle, is there somewhere else we can go?" Writes Barry Witts.

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Published: 26 July 2014

A trip down the Fossdyke

WHEN we purchased 'Rosie' we collected her from Torksey. Our first trip was along the Trent to Keadby. We had walked around the lock and moorings at Torksey to familiarise ourself with the layout, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 25 July 2014

RSPCA warns anglers

ONCE again the RSPCA is warning anglers to be careful with their litter after a duck was found with hooks in its beak and wing.

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Published: 25 July 2014

Blue-green algae is here

ONCE again as the hot weather comes so does the blue-green algae along the canals and rivers.
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Published: 25 July 2014

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