OVER the past few months, there has been a lot of understandable confusion and anxiety within our community over the situation regarding boaters’ access to financial assistance during the UK’s ongoing fuel and cost-of-living crisis.
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IT SEEMS that, in spite of freezing temperatures, the same boater reports that the contractors at Shebdon have got their act together, writes Anne of Nabo.
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A OVERHAUL of outdated byelaws controlling the types of activities allowed at Bancroft Gardens, including the moorings, is set to be approved, Roger Fox writes.
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THE leaking gates on Lock 6 of the Staffs & Worcs Canal are to be refitted in an attempt to stop leakage.
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IN REPORTING that Crabtree Swing Bridge is repaired and re-opened, Keith Gudgin asks—but for how long?
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LEARNING that the metamorphosis of British Waterways into a trust caused it to rely on contractors made it a very bad decision indeed, writes T. Lang.
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IN THIS time of Canal & River Trust scrambling to get cash and being so unsuccessful, its effort is now for the benefit of frogs, toads, newts and other species, writes Julie Warne.
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OF COURSE, every boater wants any obstacle to full navigation either to be pre-empted by preventative maintenance or to be repaired as close to instantaneously as physically possible. And why not? Asks Mike Todd.
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A WOMAN has lost her life after being hit by a speeding cyclist on the Thames towpath.
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