CONCERN is being expressed about the future of the proposed restoration of the Lapal Canal following publication of a leaflet by a developer, Land Securities (in partnership with Sainsbury's), which shows a revised scheme for Battery Park which does not include provision for the canal, writes Allan Richards.
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WIDE beam boats are being severely restricted from passing through Crick Tunnel, with no week-end passage whatsoever.
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THE body of a boater moored at Crick has been discovered under the ice of the Grand Union Canal.
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THE appeal launched to erect a a panel in memory of Maureen Shaw of Wardle Lock on the Middlewich Branch has reached its target, and is now closed.
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THE Canal & River Trust Trustee, John Dodwell has asked if he may respond to some recent items contained in narrowboatworld, to which we have acquiesced.
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BOAT Safety Scheme Examiners who are members of the Nationwide Alliance of Boat Surveyors & Examiners (NABSE) are concerned that boat owners are largely unaware that elements of the Boat Safety Scheme Examination will change on 1st January 2013.
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THE construction of a long stretch of towpath on the Oxford Canal into a cycle track near the city, has been scuppered as water voles have been discovered nearby!
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THE thief who broke into two narrowboats moored at Lapworth on the Grand Union Canal and also then robbed two boys on the towpath has been jailed for two years.
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SOME boaters feed the ducks, but other torment them, and for the latter at Canary Wharf on the Thames the ducks are out for revenge.
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Having worked on charity committees in the past, the charity has no legal obligation to provide minutes of meetings. What legalities the ex British Waterways had, no longer exist, since it became a charitable organisation, writes Peter Ponting.
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