IT WAS boater Peter Williamson walking to the local pub, Nightly Arms, who saw the police at a narrowboat at Yelvertoft on the summit pound of the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal.
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FOLLOWING our story of the opposition to the new massive 600 berths marina on the Oxford Canal, comes news of a 'Stop the Monster Marina at Onley' campaign against the proposed development.
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FOLLOWING failure to gain influence in the new Canal & River Trust (CART) which replaced British Waterways a month ago, the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) National Chairman, Clive Henderson, is to step down, writes Allan Richards.
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I DO understand that supplying red diesel from the bank side has its drawbacks but I believe not supplying it from the bank side will have more drawbacks, write Maffi.
BOTH the gate and ground paddles of two Chesterfield Canal locks have been vandalised in Worksop on the off side.
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A BOATER was so drunk that he fell off his boat into the canal by Braunston Marina, but if that wasn't bad enough he has now been arrested for being drunk in charge of a boat, Graham Phillips tells us.
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CONCERNING the number of diesel retailers giving up the sale of the fuel after the varying tax increase, many blame the Association of Pleasure Craft Operators for the problem.
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OVER the whole system we hear of businesses stopping selling diesel to boaters, caused by a combination of the low profit margin coupled with increasing bureaucracy and the tax system.
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BOATERS are warned not to get off their boats between Bridge 60 and Bridge 61 on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Armitage.
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