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Royal honour for K&A volunteers

IN THIS age of awards by the score, many of which really mean very little, the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust has received the ultimate award—The Queens Award for Voluntary Service.

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Published: 03 June 2013

Regent's Canal booze-up havoc

AN UNLICENCED event over the weekend caused havoc and left a trail of destruction along the Regent's Canal.

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Published: 03 June 2013

Montgomery Canal work recognised

THE work over the past 10 years of a member of the Shropshire Union Canal Society has been recognised by the Inland Waterways Association.

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Published: 03 June 2013

Winter maintenance announced

THE winter maintenance programme has been announced by Canal & River Trust, with it states, £50 millions to be spent.

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Published: 03 June 2013

Spoilt for others

THERE are complaints about the state of the barbeque area at Tring on the Grand Union Canal, with the appliance filled with rubbish.

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Published: 03 June 2013

TV licence purge on boaters

THE television licensing authority is taking great interest in residential boaters who do not have a television licence, with at the moment this being concentrated in the North.

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Published: 01 June 2013

Where responsibility lies

FOLLOWING the theft of the narrowboat Samshiba from its mooring on the Soar I, and I hope other boat owners, will have been shocked to find just how easy thieves must think it is to steal a boat, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 01 June 2013

Email: Disagrees and agrees

I disagree with much of what Maffi has written. How long does he want to stay on public moorings in Oxford exactly?
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Published: 31 May 2013

Fireboat restored

THE fire boat Massey Shaw, that operated on the Thames during the second world war, has been restored by Tommi Nielsen's yard in Gloucester Docks.

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Published: 31 May 2013

200 boats on the Bridgewater

THE annual Bridgewater Cruising Club Rally attracted nearly 200 boats from the six boat clubs along the Bridgewater Canal, this year.
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Published: 31 May 2013

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