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IF YOU own a television set a licence is required when it is used to receive or record programmes during the time they are broadcast to the general public. Like it or not they are the rules, writes Maffi.

BOATERS' Christian Fellowship is visiting the waterway at Droitwich on a four days visit in June to offer pastoral care.

THE spate of break-ins of narrowboats still continues, but this time along the Grand Union Canal.

THE work over the past 10 years of a member of the Shropshire Union Canal Society has been recognised by the Inland Waterways Association.

THE winter maintenance programme has been announced by Canal & River Trust, with it states, £50 millions to be spent.

THERE are complaints about the state of the barbeque area at Tring on the Grand Union Canal, with the appliance filled with rubbish.

FOLLOWING the theft of the narrowboat Samshiba from its mooring on the Soar I, and I hope other boat owners, will have been shocked to find just how easy thieves must think it is to steal a boat, writes Pam Pickett.

THE fire boat Massey Shaw, that operated on the Thames during the second world war, has been restored by Tommi Nielsen's yard in Gloucester Docks.

THERE is to be an unusual sponsored walk on the Kennet & Avon Canal in June—with those taking part carrying buckets of water on their heads.

AS PART of Boat Safety Week, the Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service will be visiting boaters along the Kennet & Avon Canal, offering free smoke alarms.

CLAIMED to be the biggest hotel boat on the inland waterways, Wessex Rose is now working the Kennet & Avon Canal.

THOUGH the National Audit Office report has slammed HS2, it regretfully remains silent on damage already done, in particular to the restoration of the Chesterfield Canal.

THE recent Crick Boat Show showed that there is an ever increasing demand for share boating, with shared ownership companies reporting a quick take-up of shares.