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Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Christmas bile

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I see the Christmas break has given all the whingeing holiday boaters time to email Narrowboat World to complain about any boater who is not...
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Thursday, 18 October 2012

Artist's impression or adjustment?

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The artist's  impression of plans to upgrade Birmingham's  National Indoor Arena and open it  up to the canal look impressive, but ...
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Mooring Auctions – and how to push more boaters into continuous cruising

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MOST boaters were opposed to the BW (now CRT) mooring auction system from the start. It would, they argued push up prices, benefit only ...
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Friday, 13 July 2012

Are continuous cruisers to become outcasts of the system?

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I really hope it is not a sign of things to come that on the day of the launch of the Canal and River Trust a senior IWA man was making ...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Lovely canal - so why neglect it?

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We have just completed a week or so on the Upper Peak Forest, a canal we visit at least annually and where we used to have moorings. It is ...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Is charity a dirty word?

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Charity for me is something handed out from the haves to the have-nots. The givers, whether they are wealthy individuals, religious groups o...
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Saturday, 31 March 2012

A matter of class

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George Galloway's humiliation of Labour in Bradford highlights one distinction between socialist parties and Labour - a willingness to a...
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Peter Underwood
Journalist for the past 44 years. Worked on daily newspapers, in TV news and on radio. Won awards for investigative journalism and been a political specialist, interviewing every PM between Wilson and Major. Run two PR companies. Now freelancing a drifting around the UK canal system.
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