JULY 2014 was an important anniversary and I cannot understand how it passed me by without a big celebration. Yes it was the second anniversary of the formation of the Canal & River Trust, writes John Sloan.
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IT WOULD seem the comment by contributors that there is less vandal activity was somewhat premature, as Canal & River Trust have now had to close locks to navigation during evening and night.
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There seems to be a lot of criticism of enforcement officers for doing their job and trying to enforce the rules, writes David Hargreaves.
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THE speed whingers have featured often in narrowboatworld but when even the gentle John Dodwell is drawn to comment on the ignorant—and commonly rude—speed obsessives (Not-sailing-off-into-the-sunset) it is obviously time that these sad people were better educated on the subject, writes David Lyneham-Brown.
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THE boating season is now drawing to a close for the majority of the readers of narrowboatworld, and as a general observation, from my standpoint alongside the Staffs & Worcs. Canal, it has been a pretty good one, writes Orph Mable.
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THE moorers who are attempting to lay claim to a river bank at Oxford (Another attempt to grab river bank) are causing tensions amongst people living nearby.
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THE man who attacked a woman on the towpath of the Kennet & Avon at Fobney Lock in Reading (Woman in canal to escape knife attacker) has been caught and is now in custody.
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Currently on the southern stretch of the Staffs & Worcs, and as a single hander, finding some of it quite demanding. Gates and paddles in many locks could really do with some TLC and Stourport Basins have changed beyond recognition, writes Deborah Piekarski.
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WHILST applauding narrowboatworld editor, Tom Crossley, for publishing the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) rebuttal of the article 'Saying sorry is not enough', I wonder if readers have spotted the two differences between CaRT's response and its other narrowboatworld articles, asks Allan Richards.
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THE article by our Allan Richards (Saying sorry is not enough) has prompted a response from Canal & River Trust, to set out its position and we feel in only fair we should include its statement:
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