AFTER a boater fell off his narrowboat and drowned in Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal a coroner is calling for safety improvements including communications and life jackets.
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A BOAT fire in Lock 7 of the Ribble Link has closed the waterway since last weekend when it went up in flames and burnt out. Keith and Jennifer Riley were passing through the lock when their narrowboat caught fire, that was so intense that they could rescue nothing from it, but call the fire brigade that arrived and eventually doused the fire, Alan Tilbury tells us. Bookings cancelled Being the access to the Lancaster Canal the passage across the Ribble is tidal, so the Link in not operational every day but the bookings for Sunday and Monday, when it was, had to be cancelled whilst the boat was inspected, removed and the area cleaned up. It was the engine that started  to overheat, but then burst into flame, catching the woodwork, and before long the whole boat was an inferno, it taking 16 fire people two hours to completely put the fire out. Lost everything Keith and Jennifer have been boating for the past 18 years, mostly as liveaboards, having lived in a house for only three years during all that time, moving into their present boat 15 months ago, that was their home, which means they have now lost everything, but have received help from the Red Cross. The clean-up of the oil and debris has now been completed, with the boat taken from the lock and moored nearby awaiting removal, and the Link again open.
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I THOUGHT I'd seen most of the absurdities on the cut, but this week I came across a new one, writes John Howard.
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TWO perennial gripes amongst boaters are speed passing moored boats and dog poo on the towpath writes Peter Lloyd.
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I have just received a telephone call (Wednesday afternoon) from a boater who has been denied access to Gloucester on his boat, writes Amy Dickerson.

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If you are aiming to go through Gloucester Lock between 9am and 7pm on Monday 18th August, you can't, and there will be hold ups 'for a few weeks' whilst third party filming is taking place.

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Regarding Ralph Freeman and the Lazy Buggers Charter. When the restructuring took place and the new 'directorates' (an internal job and bonus creation scheme) were plucked out of thin air, a further possibly unintended consequence was released on the cut, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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THE visitor moorings at Shireoaks Marina on the Chesterfield Canal were ousted onto the towpath on Monday, with the marina fenced off and locked.

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THE boat hire company, College Cruisers, that has been operating from its yard at the bottom of the Oxford Canal for 40 years has had to give up two thirds of its premises in the middle of its season.

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FOLLOWING concerns expressed by the National Association of Boat Owners (NABO), Waterways Ombudsman, Andrew Walker, has claimed that he is independent despite reporting direct to Canal & River Trust and not operating under rules of an independent scheme, writes Allan Richards.

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