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The sunshine on Good Friday persuaded me it was time to leave the marina no matter what the weather. For the last week cruising has been curtailed somewhat by overnight ice.

THE Canal & River Trust council member and disgraced Inland Waterways Association trustee, Vaughan Welch, has threatened a boater with police action claiming he is the subject of threats and harassment, writes Allan Richards.

I HAVE to agree with Victor about the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. I tried to do it last year. I draw 28 inches and I measured only 21 inches between locks 14E/15E so turned round at the winding hole at lock 9E and went back, writes Keith Gudgin.

Further to the article about the CaRT emergency number I saw the same communication problem during the boat fire incident at Sutton Stop that I reported last week writes, Keith Gudgin.

THE failure of Lock 12 on the Aylesbury Arm is surely indicative of a lack of lengthsmen and lock keepers who used to regularly walk the towpaths and flights, writes Kevin McNiff.

AFTER exiting Drakeholes tunnel and travelling some way further along the Chesterfield Canal we came across a 77 year old man (Mr Clayton) in serious difficulties with the onset of hypothermia, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

PAST readers of narrowboatworld may remember the much publicised and expensive launch of moving aggregate from Ryall, near Upton-on-Severn to the Cemex concrete plant via the Severn.

I SEE the folly of British Waterways' policy over many years is ‘coming home to roost', writes Jimmy Lockwood.

WELTONFIELD Narrowboat's Facebook page ('Weltonfield1974') has been removed following complaints from boaters, writes Allan Richards.

WE ARE told that 14 boats are trapped in Aylesbury owing to the collapsed of the wall of Lock 12 on the Arm.

WASTED millions? More like hundreds of millions, writes Del Brenner, following up Allan Richard's recent article (Another half million gone?).

THOUGH £32 millions were poured into opening the 'impossible dream' of restoring the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, to my mind it was by far from completed.