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Best season ever for community boat

THE John Bunyan, Bedford's Community Boat has this summer had its best season ever and has now carried over 22,000 passengers since it first started operating in July 2013.

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Published: 05 October 2016

The Grand Union no longer so grand

NOT HAVING visited the Grand Union South for six years we set off hoping to enjoy its deep waters and fairly low levels of boat traffic we previously experienced, writes John Wallace.

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Published: 05 October 2016

Email: Absolutely appalling treatment

The treatment by Canal & River Trust of that vulnerable lady asleep in her boat was absolutely appalling and should never have happened.

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Published: 03 October 2016

Cart IS a landlord

IN RESPONSE to Julie Bedell's quixotic assertion that CaRT is not a housing society or housing agency, Dave Stead writes:
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Published: 03 October 2016

Can't do right for doing wrong

COME on, CaRT can't do right for doing wrong according to some of your contributors, in this case the lightship in Liverpool, writes Paul Holden.

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Published: 03 October 2016

Canal based paedophile ring exposed

A MASSIVE canal based paedophile ring of scores of sex offenders living on narrowboats has been exposed.

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Published: 03 October 2016

Is the 'Do not enter' notice legal?

THE notice affixed by Canal & River Trust on to a gate that only shows the words 'Do not enter', has prompted readers to ask if this amounts to 'stopping' the access, and is illegal.

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Published: 03 October 2016

Victor: Damned

I HAVE to admit that the headline 'Damned if it does—damned if it doesn't' of the article concerning Cart and its methods of enforcement of non-licence payers said it all.

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Published: 02 October 2016

What is it?

PAST paintings often show boats on the canals that are far from being like the ones we now see, but here is one that seemingly defies explanation.

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Published: 30 September 2016

Damned if it does—damned if it doesn't

HAVING viewed your article about the eviction of a lone, vulnerable woman living on a boat in Bath a couple of points come to mind, writes Julie Bedell.
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Published: 30 September 2016

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