TRIBUTES have been flooding in to the OwnerShips website following the death of its managing director Allen Mathews, writes Allan Richards. Allen Mathews was the man who invented the concept of shared ownership and proved the sceptics wrong.
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THE invasive quick growing weed, Floating Pennywort, firmly established in the canals and rivers of the South and Midlands, is now spreading North.
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WHEN Peter Lloyd kindly sent us the reports and photographs of the narrowboat that sunk outside its marina, we included his blog address, as a 'thank you'.
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THE NEWS that Cambridge County Council still have the access to and from the Middle Levels blocked has enraged the Middle Level Commissioners.
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THE Mon & Brec Canal is closed at the start of the cruising season due to a leak in the pound that was repaired after the 2007 bank collapse.
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BOATER John West has received a commendation from Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton for rescuing a family from the Thames.
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BOATERS working the locks from Diglis Basin on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal should take extra care this coming season.
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AFTER four weeks on the bottom of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, the narrowboat Stepping Stone was re-floated yesterday (Thursday), Peter Lloyd tells us.
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WHEN a towpath walker alerted the emergency services to a body in the Union Canal at Linlithgow, everything went on full alert.
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ANOTHER boater on the Thames has saved a drowning man in the river—the second within a month.
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