I CAN seek to reassure Alan Richards that the POLP loan about which he wrote (9th July) will not need to be repaid from charitable donations, writes John Dodwell, one of the 10 volunteer Trustees of Canal & River Trust.
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DEVELOPERS want the ground that the Penny Ferry pub on the Cam at Chesterton stands on, and it seems the efforts to save the pub will fail.
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BOATERS are becoming increasingly frustrated by long term moorers permanently taking up most of the available space at visitor moorings.
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THOUGH boaters are being charged what they see as exorbitant charges for moorings at the designated Olympic sites, they are complaining they do not have basic facilities.
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THE body of a 14 years old boy has been recovered from the Avon near Saltford Weir and Lock below Bath.
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RECENT work on the Wey & Arun Canal was centred on the summit pound, with the Wey & Arun Canal Trust hoping to be able to run boats trips, as part of its 200th anniversary celebrations of the original opening of the Wey & Arun Canal.
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BOATERS wishing to see the Daily Telegraph article concerning the move to the Canal & River Trust can now read it on the Web.
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THOUGH we are told that the boat hire business is booming, and making up for a fall in private boating, research has found the opposite to be true, as Kevin McNiff has discovered.
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IT HAS been confirmed, as narrowboatworld foretold earlier this year, that security checks will be made on boaters on the Bridgewater Canal, again because of the Olympics.
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THE desire for visitors to the towpaths and the resulting mowing, has caused objections at a 10 feet swathe of wild flowers having been decimated by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
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