LIFE saving equipment has been stolen from the Severn Area Rescue Association base in Kidderminster.
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THE closure of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Lock 55 at Blackburn should be lifted by this coming Friday afternoon, Keith Gudgin tells us.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) have quietly introduced a concept of ‘ghost moorers', and that is why Ralph Freeman and Tony Dunkley are being treated as 'continuous cruisers' rather than as boaters who have 'home moorings' writes Allan Richards.
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TO ENABLE Pillings Lock Marina to work with the cost of its Network Access Agreement (NAA) it has been forced to reduced its number of berths.
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A NUMBER of contributors have complained recently about being regarded and treated in the same way (that is, being sanctioned in various unwelcome ways by CART) as continuous cruisers, despite having a registered home mooring, writes Suzanne MacLeod.
WITH the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) becoming very difficult to navigate through so much rubbish tipped into the waterways, there had to be a big clean-up.
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I have no wish to be involved in adverse comments, or not, regarding Sally Ash and her departure.
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I met a different type of speed complainer last week on the Ashby Canal. He was walking slowly along, nearly twice the speed I was travelling, carrying a newspaper and smartly dressed.
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MY CONTACT in the hire boat business tells me that CaRT's panicky appeal for funds after the winter floods led to a 40% drop in bookings across the industry, which had been going quite well.
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Regarding Tie up and Shut up! Most of the anti social morons who shout, I wouldn't mind betting, are the same idiots who tie up with one rope bow and stern, and also the centre rope on the roof.
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