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Email: Try Thames and Regents Canal

In reference to Ralph's piece on moorings, he should try the Thames and the Regent's Canal.

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Published: 01 March 2013

BSS Certificate changing

FROM April, boat  owners will no longer have the task of sending off the blue copy of their Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) Certificate to the boat's registration or licensing body as the examination recording process has moved into a central online database system with direct input from BSS examiners.

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Published: 01 March 2013

Conflict of Interest

AS A MERE boater, but having a great deal of experience with charitable organisations, the conflict of interest, such as Canal & River Trust people accepting free boating holidays  is very clear, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 01 March 2013

The mooring issue

If anyone said to me "I've found mooring difficult this year," my first response would to be to ask where, then at what time of year and perhaps, what time of day. Without that data the first statement is pretty much meaningless, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 01 March 2013

Man blames chest pains for killing

A MAN accused of shooting dead his two parents after driving them into a canal has blamed chest pains for the incident, but it has been discovered he had no history of heart problems.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Towpath flasher back

A MAN is exposing himself to girls walking the Grand Union Canal towpath in Berkhamsted.

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Published: 28 February 2013

CaRT quiet on £6,750,000 spend

THERE  has been no Press Release or any intimation that Canal & River Trust has spent £6,750.000  on an office building.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Charities raise money

I SUSPECT Peter Ponting is creating a straw man: many charities raise money, whether by specific appeal or not, for matters that are their responsibility, writes Mike Todd.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Correcting impression

WE WOULD like to correct a false impression that your headline, ‘NABO welcomes court decision', and some of the opening comments in that article may have caused, writes Simon Robbins.

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Published: 28 February 2013

Preparing for Cromford trips

A LENGTH of the Cromford Canal at its terminus is to be cleaned-up in preparation for narrowboat trips.

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Published: 27 February 2013

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