LIKE Keith Gudgin, I too thought 'what a cheek' when I received the email from Waterscape [draining a pound to repair the CaRT trip boat] but after a few minutes thought I realised what a great idea it was, writes Pete Early.
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A MAN who assaulted a woman on the narrowboat she shared with her partner, has been found guilty, with the judge telling him he can expect a jail sentence of years not months.
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A POUND of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal is being de-watered, and so closed, so that the trip boat can be repaired.
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WATER draining into the Staffs & Worcs Canal from dousing a fire caused hundreds of fish to die.
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THOUGH several people attempted CPR on a man who fell into the River Great Ouse at Bedford, it was in vain.
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The recent article you published (Tolls have boaters' support) does not seem to match the reality that I see regularly, writes John Quinlan.
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WHEN I returned to our boat when moored on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal in May, it was covered in grass cuttings which had been sprayed onto a wet boat and then baked in the sun, Peter Earley writes.
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HAVING a toll for the use of Stanground and Salter Lode locks has the support of local boat owners as the most cost effected method of raising funds to cover the lock keepers' wages and the care and repair of the locks, write Kelvin Alexander Duggan.
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VICTOR'S comments about the condition of the Cheshire Locks on the Trent & Mersey Canal—better known as Heartbreak Hill—has brought criticism, pointing out the work of Inland Waterways Association volunteers.
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THE two historic boats Mendip and Gifford have left the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port on a trip to the Lymm Historic Transport Day.
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