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Getting the 10% off

AS WE did not include the discount code for the Bullet  polish that we featured recently, that we though of exceptional quality, boaters have been contacting us wanting to know how to obtain it.

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Published: 14 October 2013

Blessing the trip boat

THOUGH the John Bunyan Community has carried nearly 3,000 passengers  since July, it has now been decided to bless the boat 'in recognition of the importance of the boat to the communities in Bedford'.

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Published: 14 October 2013

Everybody is at it

I REMEMBER narrowboatworld holding photographic competitions a few years back, but now it seems 'everybody' is now holding such competitions related to the waterways, writes Geoff Lines.

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Published: 14 October 2013

"It's £130m" says Johnson

AT LAST Canal & River Trust is now agreeing with an article published in narrowboatworld concerning the annual cost of maintaining its waterways, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 14 October 2013

Fire cews rescue narrowboat

THREE fire crews turned out to rescue a narrowboat adrift on the Thames at Pangbourne yesterday (Saturday) evening, when its owner came back to see it drifting down river.

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Published: 13 October 2013

What the **** do you want?

MY WIFE and I were enjoying a late season cruise down the Grand Union Canal through Milton Keynes, when it all changed, writes Geoff Lines.

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Published: 12 October 2013

Made a difference

WE HAVE been told that just after we included the website of the new Association of Continuous Cruisers, it received lots of interest.

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Published: 11 October 2013

November before L&L opens

IT WILL be November before the next update on the stoppage on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal will be given, so it will be sometime after when the waterway will be reopened.

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Published: 11 October 2013

The strange idea of fair treatment

REGULAR readers of narrowboatworld will remember my previous article concerning the major canal breach at Dutton on the Trent & Mersey Canal and the subsequent unfavourable treatment handed out to Bridgewater Canal licence holders by CaRT, writes Frank Hurst.

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Published: 11 October 2013

1940's at museum

TAKING a leaf out of Stoke Bruerne's wartime week-end, The National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port is also staging a 1940's themed weekend.

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Published: 10 October 2013

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Latest

  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed
  • Long closure caused by building demolition
  • Just one puppy lived of three dumped on canal towpath
  • Could be a long stoppage at Kennet & Avon lock
  • How the boat rescue was undertaken

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