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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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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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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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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A MAN is exposing himself to girls walking the Grand Union Canal towpath in Berkhamsted.
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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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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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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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A LENGTH of the Cromford Canal at its terminus is to be cleaned-up in preparation for narrowboat trips.
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THE girl depicted on a poster advertising for women to work the canals during the second world war, has been found after in international search.
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