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I HAVE never really understood the 'us and them' mentality to be found amongst a group of people with supposedly similar interests, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

BRITISH Waterways is the cuckoo in the nest of the Canal & River Trust, warns Del Brenner.

The canals and railways have throughout their history had much in common. There are a surprising number of similarities and parallels in their history, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

IN HIS second article concerning the Canal & River Trust's SCADA system, Ralph Freeman explores whether, as it stands, it can replace lengthsmen/lock keepers when it comes to control of water levels in individual pounds?

THERE is an awful amount of confrontation going on around the Cut, both on and off it, most of which seems to be fuelled by blinkered (my opinion) views on aspects as varied as mooring, hire boating and canal maintenance, writes Orph Mable.

AFTER reading the article in November written by regular columnist Ralph Freeman (narrowboatworld 8th November 2012—SCADA in Control?), I became unusually interested in this aspect of our canals, writes Orph Mable.

NOTHING is worse after a days cruising, than to moor up at a visitors mooring, to find the owner of the boat near you, come home and immediately start up a generator, then continue to run it until all hours, writes Peter Ponting.

JOHN Dodwell, a Trustee of the Canal & River Trust, gave a speech at the Annual General Meeting of the Kennet & Avon Trade Association on Monday (February 25th 2013), at Newbury, and with so much interest we reproduce it in full.

SEEMS those nice people in Europe are again trying to ‘unify practice' across all member states and are attacking our use of derogated agricultural diesel (the red stuff to you and me) in pleasure boats, writes Orph Mable.