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'Serious miss' with inverter fire

ADVICE about inverters from Sawley Marina where there was a 'very serious near miss' when an inverter-charger over heated in a boat and caught fire.

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Published: 25 July 2016

Experiment with new ideas

SEVERAL of your correspondents rushed to condemn the use of coir rolls as a form of bank protection, writes Mike Todd.
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Published: 25 July 2016

Café reopens after court case

IT WAS a long civil court case that caused Andrew Bell to close his café situated by the weir on the Avon in Bath, but is open once again.

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Published: 25 July 2016

Boy's body found in canal

The body of an 11 years old boy was dragged from the  Fitzwilliam Canal in Parkgate at Rotherham last night (Thursday) at around 11pm after a search operation.

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Published: 22 July 2016

Very short sighted

The use of coir rolls instead of proper piling on canal banks is inductive of the way Canal & River Trust now operates, writes James Henry.

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Published: 22 July 2016

Uselessness of coir

We too passed the CaRT guys laying the coir matting on the Oxford a couple of weeks ago, writes John Howard.
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Published: 22 July 2016

David: Boating the Basingstoke

CRUISING the length of the Basingstoke Canal, as we did a couple of weeks ago, takes me back to my early years of boating in the 70s and 80s.

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Published: 22 July 2016

Regent's Canal closed

The Regent's Canal in the capital is currently closed due to the failure of the lock at its junction with the Hertford Union Canal.

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Published: 22 July 2016

Usless coir rolls

I can but agree with T Lang about the uselessness of coir rolls fastened to canal banks, and concur that not only do they not stable banks, but do the opposite, and are pointless is providing habitats for insects as is claimed.

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Published: 21 July 2016

What's the point of coir rolls?

I HAVE just finished a three weeks cruise on my narrowboat that included the Oxford Canal, and just cannot understand the need for all those coir rolls that are being installed on the towpath side of the canal, writes T Lang.

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Published: 21 July 2016

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