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Encouraging disabled use of canals

HALTON Disability Partnership held an event on Saturday at the Bridgewater Motor Boat Club in Runcorn to thank its members and supporters for their help, writes Frank Hurst.

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Published: 15 October 2012

Narrowboat fire on Lee

ANOTHER narrowboat has caught fire, this time at Dobb's Weir at Hoddesdon on the Lee Navigation.

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Published: 14 October 2012

Silencing the opposition

SOME aspects of the changeover from British Waterways to CaRT have recently been brought sharply into focus for me by the accusation of libellous content levelled by CaRT at Pamela Smith, editor of the small Kennet & Avon Boaters Community Website, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 13 October 2012

City clean-up

WATERWAYS through cities and town always seem to attract litter from their residents, so there is an effort to clean-up the waterway around Frog Island in Leicester.

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Published: 12 October 2012

Ten years celebrated

ONE of Surrey's most distinctive charity projects, the Swingbridge community boat programme (part of the Surrey Care Trust) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

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Published: 12 October 2012

Autumn on the Trent & Mersey

WE HAVE now had the first hard frost on the Trent & Mersey Canal (in the Stone region) and some of the trees are starting to change colour. The 'silly season' is over for another year and the volume of boats out and about is dropping rapidly, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 12 October 2012

Slipway closed

AFTER a review of the operation of the slipway at West Stockwith Basin on the Chesterfield Canal, the decision has been made to close it unless  Canal & River Trust staff are available to supervise.

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Published: 12 October 2012

Good effort to help stranded boats

I must say that I am most impressed by the attitude and efforts of CaRT to resolve the issues of boats stranded by the breach, writes Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 12 October 2012

New bridge for Stroud

A NEW bridge over the Stroudwater has been officially opened, furthering the completion of that part of the Cotswold Canals restoration.

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Published: 11 October 2012

Latest regular contributor

MANY of you should have noticed items appearing in narrowboatworld written by Frank Hurst, his latest being on how the breach on the Trent & Mersey Canal is affecting his fellow boaters.

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Published: 11 October 2012

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