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Towpath knife attack

A YOUNG girl has been threatened with a knife and assaulted on a Birmingham Canal Navigations towpath.

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Published: 21 December 2012

Email: Nothing altered

After reading Peter Ponting's article, I have to confirm too, that none of the articles I have had in narrowboatworld have been altered in any way either by the editor.

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Published: 20 December 2012

Drunks jumped in waterway

TWO drunk men risked their lives by leaping into the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Brighouse, causing emergency services to respond.

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Published: 20 December 2012

Board minutes complaint

IT IS disingenuous for a Canal & River Trust trustee, John Dodwell, to suggest in narrowboatworld (A trustee responds—3/12/2012) that minutes of trustee meetings since July 2011 have been published for some time, writes Allan Richards.
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Published: 20 December 2012

Outage puzzle

MANY people were unlucky when they attempted to access narrowboatworld this morning (Wednesday) for though the front page loaded, no others would.

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Published: 19 December 2012

Third misfortune

BOATER Philip Morris has had his third misfortune on the Avon at Tewkesbury, being stranded in the floods that recently took over the river again.
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Published: 19 December 2012

Knostrop Wharf gets protection

THOUGH the former British Waterways supported the initiative by Leeds City Council planners to protect the freight terminal at Knostrop on the Aire & Calder Navigation, Canal & River Trust objected to protection.

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Published: 19 December 2012

Nothing amended or re-written

I HAVE written a number of articles for narrowboatworld, covering the whole spectrum of what we experienced whilst cruising for six months this year. And at no time were my articles amended or re-written in any way shape or form, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 19 December 2012

Kings Orchard back on track

THE marina that was started some three years ago on the Coventry Canal, is back on track, with its first phase opening scheduled for Monday 3rd June next year.

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Published: 19 December 2012

Emails: Not correct

Boaters are responding to the article by Canal & River Trust Trustee, John Dodwell, including one who disputes one of his assertions.

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Published: 18 December 2012

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