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Help wanted over boater's death

WARWICKSHIRE Police have told us they would like to hear from boaters who cruised the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal between Lock 50 and Bridge 62A, or anyone who moored alongside the canal in the vicinity on Saturday 6th August.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Another drowns

A STUDENT  who had drunk a bottle of wine, five vodka shots and a number of cocktails, who could hardly stand, stumbled by the Avon in Bath, fell in and drowned.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Don't judge us all

DISCONCERTED by the comment of Geoff Bennett [Boater's Off] telling how he was accosted by a female cyclist telling that towpaths were only for cyclists, has prompted a fellow cyclist to put matters in perspective.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Email: Those spires

Regarding  the art installation on the Oxford, the canal at that point is probably wide enough to accommodate the spires.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Man shot on towpath

IT SEEMS our towpaths are becoming even more dangerous, for though muggings are now common-place with the occasional person pushed in the water we now risk getting shot!

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Published: 12 August 2011

Confusing spending with costs

The point is the National Association of Boat Owners is confusing spending with costs [Little increase in boating costs—NABO] writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Narrowboat refloated

IT WAS on Wednesday that a narrowboat sank whilst on the Coventry Canal at Mancetter, Brian Holmes tells us.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Whilst it leaks away...

IT TAKES some believing but whilst the Oxford Canal is leaking away through lack of money, cash is to be found for a ridiculous project on the waterway.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Email: Way out

I think the figures in this article [reservoirs and lock fulls] are way out.

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Published: 12 August 2011

Anglers are exempt!

BRITISH Waterways have confirmed that anglers will be exempt from the new law banning tents on the towpath.

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Published: 12 August 2011

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