I HEARD directly from CART staff on the Bank Holiday Monday of the incident just 30 minutes after it had happened, and was told that engineers would be on site first thing Tuesday for an assessment of the damage/repair. In the meantime I personally visited the site to just see the problem for myself, writes Ann Davies of Napton Narrowboats.
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THE Napton Lock Flight on the Oxford Canal has reopened today (Friday) after an emergency four day closure following the collapse of a waterway wall at lock 10.
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A LORRY carrying fertiliser burst into flames as it crashed through the barriers of Rawcliffe Bridge over the Aire & Calder Navigation near Goole yesterday (Thursday).
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I WRITE In response to Simon Greer's question, in narrowboatworld 'CaRT stole my boat. I want it back', as to who is to be the next boater to be left homeless by CaRT? Asks Pam Pickett.
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THE Environment Agency has closed the Basingstoke Canal after the discovery of the toxic blue-green algae on the Hampshire section of the waterway.
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BOTH staff and berth holders at Hull Marina took centre stage late in April for the filming of a new major feature film, Girls' Night Out, starring Rupert Everett, Jack Reynor, Emily Watson, Sarah Gadon and Bel Powley.
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THE internet company Highland Wi-Fi have rolled out Broadband along all the navigable Scottish canals.
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David Harpin's comments about the lack of residential moorings sum up the situation about continuous cruising quite succinctly, but not I suspect in the way he intended.
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THE sun shined, the people came and the On the Water Weekend at Pilling's Lock Marina on the Soar was nothing short of a resounding success, Paul Lillie writes.
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