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Boy drowned after 'dare'

A SCHOOLBOY responding to a 'dare' to walk a pipe attached to a Leeds & Liverpool Canal bridge, fell and drowned.

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Published: 06 March 2015

Email: What will they do?

I don't know if this has been said before, but if CaRT do not renew the licences of these people that don't obey the rules (in CaRT's eyes), what are they going to do?

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Published: 06 March 2015

More moorings on the Macc

MANY boaters have difficulty finding moorings close to Macclesfield town centre on the Macclesfield Canal, so Canal & River Trust will shortly be installing new pontoon moorings for visiting boaters.

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Published: 06 March 2015

Double U-turn for CaRT!

WITHIN minutes of the narrowboatworld article ‘CaRT still bullying?', the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has made a spectacular U-turn, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 06 March 2015

The end of continuous cruising?

IT SEEMS to me as if the cat is now, at least partially, out of the bag. CaRT intend to do away with continuous cruising by fair means or foul, writes Martin Brooks.

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Published: 06 March 2015

Email: Social cycling

While I am not given to supporting racing on towpaths I am in favour of gentle family and social cycling in exchange for monies from government etc to maintain and improve towpaths.

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Published: 06 March 2015

Don't want or need Big Brother

IF ANYONE is really sympathetic to continuous cruisers they should not be encouraging them to insist that CaRT define 'distance' or ‘place', writes Eric Weiss.

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Published: 06 March 2015

Cyclists should give way

WHETHER on a public right of way or indeed a permissive right of way such as a canal towpath, cyclists are required to give way to pedestrians, writes Neil Quarmby.

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Published: 05 March 2015

CaRT still bullying?

THE Canal & River Trust are bullying boaters without home moorings by sending them letters which threaten not to renew 12 month licences, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 05 March 2015

Took the wrong arch

ALL of us who have cruised the Avon know to keep to the marked navigation arch when passing under Bidford Bridge, but one boater thought better—and paid the price.

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Published: 05 March 2015

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