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Everybody is at it

I REMEMBER narrowboatworld holding photographic competitions a few years back, but now it seems 'everybody' is now holding such competitions related to the waterways, writes Geoff Lines.

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Published: 14 October 2013

"It's £130m" says Johnson

AT LAST Canal & River Trust is now agreeing with an article published in narrowboatworld concerning the annual cost of maintaining its waterways, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 14 October 2013

Fire cews rescue narrowboat

THREE fire crews turned out to rescue a narrowboat adrift on the Thames at Pangbourne yesterday (Saturday) evening, when its owner came back to see it drifting down river.

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Published: 13 October 2013

What the **** do you want?

MY WIFE and I were enjoying a late season cruise down the Grand Union Canal through Milton Keynes, when it all changed, writes Geoff Lines.

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Published: 12 October 2013

Made a difference

WE HAVE been told that just after we included the website of the new Association of Continuous Cruisers, it received lots of interest.

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Published: 11 October 2013

November before L&L opens

IT WILL be November before the next update on the stoppage on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal will be given, so it will be sometime after when the waterway will be reopened.

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Published: 11 October 2013

The strange idea of fair treatment

REGULAR readers of narrowboatworld will remember my previous article concerning the major canal breach at Dutton on the Trent & Mersey Canal and the subsequent unfavourable treatment handed out to Bridgewater Canal licence holders by CaRT, writes Frank Hurst.

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Published: 11 October 2013

1940's at museum

TAKING a leaf out of Stoke Bruerne's wartime week-end, The National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port is also staging a 1940's themed weekend.

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Published: 10 October 2013

Works to be redeveloped

THE works of engineers Jones & Attwood by the side of the Stourbridge Canal is being offered to developers, who will demolish the buildings to erect housing.

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Published: 10 October 2013

Anglers save boater

IT WAS anglers who came to the rescue of a woman who had fallen from her boat near Days Lock on the Thames.

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Published: 10 October 2013

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