I am unhappy with the adverse implication in the use of the term 'spy' to refer to people who send information to CaRT regarding boats that abuse their rights in using the canal system—or indeed any other illegal act.
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THE MEMORANDUM of understanding between the Canal & River Trust and Inland Waterways Association has been labelled by some as a 'marriage of convenience', writes Allan Richards.
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I AM NOT sure whether it's what I write that has upset a few in Ivory Towers, or the photographs I take of things that need fixing, writes Ralph Freeman.
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A VERY expensive 'gin palace' owner decided to take his new boat on the flooding Thames—but didn't get very far.
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THOUGH many believe our reporting on the spying antics on boaters was somewhat far-fetched, it is actually happening, and even more widespread than at first thought.
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IN JUNE last year, the then British Waterways employees and other boaters reported a vessel that seemed to have been abandoned, located at the entrance to the top lock in the Tinsley Flight and the entrance to Tinsley Marina, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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IF WE are going to give the discussion/argument between continuous cruisers and marina moorers a rest for a while perhaps we can do the same for the continual debate about the Inland Waterways Association 'hijacking' the Canal & River Trust Council, writes, Peter Early.
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THE number of narrowboat boats broken into on the Oxford Canal has reached worrying proportions, with the police no nearer in apprehending the thieves.
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I thought some comments on Allan Richards' fascinating report about Paul Lillie's travails at his Pillings Lock Marina would be in order, writes David Collins.
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THERE are proposals for yet another marina on the Llangollen Canal, this time on the Ellesmere Arm.
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