IT IS ALWAYS sad to read of the death of anyone and my sympathies go out to all those affected by the death of Alan Green with the sinking of nb Sonskit. Especially so to his mother who witnessed it and to whom it must have been a terrifying experience, writes Derek Willetts.
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THE Canal & River Trust claims to have double the visits per year to the waterways compared to all of the National Parks of the whole country put together!
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THE former boat burglar Allan Campbell is back in business again breaking into boats, and is wanted by the police for a series of thefts from boats in South Oxfordshire.
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IT WAS five weeks ago that the editor of narrowboatworld reported that the bottom gates were out of alignment on Shardlow Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal, with nothing done we discovered last Tuesday.
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A BENEFIT of Canal & River Trust's enforcement team was shown when two of them were able to discover a stolen boat and re-unite it with its owner.
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THE Montgomery Canal was closed yesterday, Wednesday, at Belan Locks above Welshpool 'until further notice'.
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THE woman that was on the boat with the man who died in Lock 5 on the Droitwich Canal tells that the boat's rudder had caught in the lock allowing water to pour onto the boat and sink it.
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Last week I did the 25 miles up the Trent from Keadby, which I was told was pronounced 'Kidby!' to Torksey then on the next day to Newark, outside the old BW offices, a further 19 miles.
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You really are forgetting that the Trust has to impress those who pay its way, which is the government.
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