THE Canal & River Trust has had to pay a staggering £1.4 millions to clear its Knostrop Wharf warehouse of waste after its predecessor, British Waterways legal department let out the premises without first securing any type of bond.
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I READ with interest, the latest narrowboatworld article (Continuous Cruisers must obey the rules) anticipating that perhaps the confusing smoke and mirrors of CaRT's rules over Continuous Cruisers might finally be lifting, but once more read the same rhetoric that I have been reading for some years now writes John Howard.
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AFTER a would-be robber lost his life in the Rochdale Nine (Robber came off worst) once again the call is to prevent people using the towpath of a section of the waterway in an attempt to prevent further incidents.
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IF BOATERS believe they are getting a raw deal from Canal & River Trust, it is nothing compared to the raft of measures being imposed by Waterways Ireland, and there's a barricade actually in place!
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I would just like to say that although the male and a number of cygnets did die last summer at Market Drayton, (regarding Richard Swan's comment) of what we were told was botulism,the female and the other cygnets did survive.
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I was not in the least surprised to read of a narrowboat being stuck under St Oswald's road bridge in Chester.
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THE 'silly season' in the newspaper world of old was in August, when people cleared off to pastures new for a bit of a holiday, and so news was somewhat lax, the result being that 'silly' items were included to fill space.
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WANTING to blow the cobwebs away I have tramped the towpaths of various parts of the Trent & Mersey Canal over the past three days as I want to produce a blog of pictures.
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THE scheme for volunteer lock keepers seems to have produced mixed experiences, if the recent piece on narrowboatworld is anything to go by. As that article mentioned, we had one very welcome experience this year and a couple where they made very little difference.
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THOUGH there have been favourable comments, there have been many complaints about the attitude towards boaters of volunteers assisting at locks during the past season, with some seemingly 'power-mad', whilst others are just not capable.
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