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Samshiba—an appeal

THE narrowboat Samshiba was stolen from Willow Moorings on the Soar sometime between late Sunday night 5th May and the early hours of Monday morning 6th May—the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (Stolen boat found) writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 10 June 2013

CaRT FoI Requests

IN THE lead up to the formation of Canal & River Trust there was quite a bit of discord created when there was a secret move made by the transitional team for CaRT to be made exempt from the Freedom of Information (FoI) legislation, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 10 June 2013

It's just a matter of time

THE catastrophic collapse of Lock 12 on the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal will, as do all failures on the system, generate copious quantities of speculation as to what actually caused it, writes Maffi.

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Published: 10 June 2013

Fast track

A THREE quarter mile length of towpath has been upgraded as a cycle track at Tottenham Hale on the Lee in London at a cost of £305,000.

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Published: 10 June 2013

Anglers want to shoot seal

THE seal that lives in the Severn around Worcester is causing controversy as the anglers want to shoot it as it is feeding on 'their' fish.

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Published: 10 June 2013

The Ark on L&L Canal

ANOTHER boat based art project—named the Ark, that is cruising the Leeds & Liverpool Canal showing films about people that have connections with the area around the waterway.

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Published: 10 June 2013

Stopping the engine noise

The obvious answer to this [engine and generator noise] is more electricity pillars, writes  Pete Earley.

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Published: 10 June 2013

Charge for TV information

Tell them nothing is sound advice, [demands for information concerning television licence], writes Ian Reid.

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Published: 10 June 2013

Problems with 'emergency' number

Yet again I am flabbergasted to read about what happens when someone dials the CaRT 'emergency' phone number.

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Published: 10 June 2013

That 'emergency' number

I HAD a similar experience to Orph's many years ago [using the emergency telephone number] when I phoned British Waterways after hours to report very high water levels at Cookley on the Staffs and Worcs, writes Graham Booth.

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Published: 10 June 2013

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