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Financial incentive?

John Kerley seems to suggest that there is a financial incentive to be a continuous moorer. Other than the need not to pay for a home mooring, what incentive for declaring yourself to be a continuous cruiser does he imagine there is? Asks Mike Todd.

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Published: 22 December 2012

Events for 2013

During the run-up to the new year, we shall once again by updating out Events Calendar, and welcome any inclusions concerning events on the waterways.

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Published: 21 December 2012

Email: Sensible proposal

David Hymer's suggestion, in his column on 19th December, that mooring fees be abolished and that the revenue lost be made up by an increase in licence fees is the most sensible proposal I have heard yet in the discussion on continuous cruisers.

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Published: 21 December 2012

Towpath knife attack

A YOUNG girl has been threatened with a knife and assaulted on a Birmingham Canal Navigations towpath.

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Published: 21 December 2012

Email: Nothing altered

After reading Peter Ponting's article, I have to confirm too, that none of the articles I have had in narrowboatworld have been altered in any way either by the editor.

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Published: 20 December 2012

Drunks jumped in waterway

TWO drunk men risked their lives by leaping into the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Brighouse, causing emergency services to respond.

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Published: 20 December 2012

Board minutes complaint

IT IS disingenuous for a Canal & River Trust trustee, John Dodwell, to suggest in narrowboatworld (A trustee responds—3/12/2012) that minutes of trustee meetings since July 2011 have been published for some time, writes Allan Richards.
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Published: 20 December 2012

Outage puzzle

MANY people were unlucky when they attempted to access narrowboatworld this morning (Wednesday) for though the front page loaded, no others would.

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Published: 19 December 2012

Third misfortune

BOATER Philip Morris has had his third misfortune on the Avon at Tewkesbury, being stranded in the floods that recently took over the river again.
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Published: 19 December 2012

Knostrop Wharf gets protection

THOUGH the former British Waterways supported the initiative by Leeds City Council planners to protect the freight terminal at Knostrop on the Aire & Calder Navigation, Canal & River Trust objected to protection.

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Published: 19 December 2012

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