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Chuggers collection boxes

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) is asking the public to choose a charity collection box for the use of its street collection people.

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Published: 25 September 2013

Continuous cruisers get association

THIS Friday sees the launch of another boaters' association, this time its purpose is to look after the interests of continuous cruisers.

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Published: 25 September 2013

Beer Festival at museum

THERE is to be a Beer Festival at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port in October, lasting three days.

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Published: 25 September 2013

Competition will soon close

THE photographic competition organised by British Waterways Marinas Ltd (BWML) now has less than a week to run.

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Published: 25 September 2013

Another try for basin

ANOTHER try is being made to convert a car park in Oxford city centre into a basin to accommodate boats.

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Published: 25 September 2013

The crumbling waterways

NINE months—eight failures, with the embankment collapse on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Rishton, between Blackburn and Burnley, on 11th September again emphasising the parlous state of Canal & River Trust (CaRT) waterways, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 23 September 2013

Hales to reappoint himself?

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Chairman, Tony Hales, who said that he would stand down as from April this year is now seeking to reappoint himself at a 'secret' meeting which he is chairing, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 09 September 2013

Guidelines for K&A boaters proposed

THE Kennet & Avon Waterways Partnership is seeking views from boaters, businesses, local authorities and other canal users on ideas for improving fair access to moorings on the canal between Devizes and Bath.

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Published: 09 September 2013

Inconsiderate boater

WHILST cruising the Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford upon Avon, we moored up at Bidford on Avon, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 09 September 2013

Not always a matter of choice

I THINK it's a shame that Steve Matthews in 'Liveaboards by an ex live aboard' chose to expand the scope of his response to my email 'Glad for the holiday season to end', to a characterisation of liveaboards as free-loading benefit-collecting 'drop-outs', writes Suzanne Macleod.

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Published: 09 September 2013

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