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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

K&A open again

THE lock that was damaged causing the closure of the Kennet & Avon Canal has now been repaired, with the navigation opened today, Monday.
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Published: 07 July 2014

Escaped to the continent

HAVING been a great fan of narrowboatworld over many years and reading with interest the various articles and emails, I continue to read with interest the discontent that there is, writes Ian Campbell.

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Published: 07 July 2014

David: Better or Worse?

THERE has been a lot of debate on narrowboatworld recently about CaRT's claim that the canals are in better shape now than ever before.

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Published: 07 July 2014

Why have they gone?

IT'S NOT a matter of where the boats have gone, but why! Writes Martin Brooks.
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Published: 07 July 2014

The dangers of no tuition

THE Severn is a river to be respected. Some days it is as calm as a mill pond, others it can be a raging torrent., writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 07 July 2014

Victor: Where have the boats gone?

SO ANOTHER year and another thousand or so less on the waterways we are told, but where are they all going?

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Published: 06 July 2014

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