Archive for March, 2013
Saturday, March 30th, 2013
Two Oxfordshire Narrowboats hire boats were broken into at Avoncliff in the early evening after dark yesterday and valuables including laptops were stolen. The spate of boat burglaries has continued but boaters have reported more information to the police about suspicious activity along the canal.
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Tags: Avoncliff, Bathampton, burglary, Claverton, hire boat companies, liveaboards, Pewsey, police, Wilcot
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Friday, March 29th, 2013
A recent Freedom of Information response shows that a decision was made in March 2012 to focus enforcement on boats moving 5km or less.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI requests, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Friday, March 29th, 2013
CRT chuggers (“charity muggers”) are spending Easter week at Bradford lock. If you see them, you may wish to remind them how much money CRT is spending on unlawful enforcement against boat dwellers without home moorings who do comply with the law.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, charity, continuous cruising, liveaboards
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Sunday, March 17th, 2013
The K&A boaters action group has a big pile of voter registration forms that we would like to deliver to as many boats as we can this week, starting tomorrow (Monday 18th March). We need some help doing this!! If you can cycle along a stretch of towpath delivering these forms, please ring/text 07928 078208 or email info@boatingcommunity.org.uk
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, electoral registration, electoral roll, liveaboards, voting, Wiltshire County Council
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Sunday, March 17th, 2013
CRT is currently recruiting seven new staff whose main purpose will be to persuade boat dwellers without home moorings to accept “new policies”; making sure that CRT’s “messages are accurately understood by social and print media as well as all those affected by changes ” and “helping to develop understanding of the legal framework within which we exercise our responsibilities as navigation authority”. Seven posts have been advertised; these are three Community Participation Managers and three Towpath Mooring Control Managers for London, the South and the North, plus an Administrator. The total cost is around £500,000.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement, liveaboards, mooring policy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Following the spate of thefts from boats in the past two weeks, police are patrolling the towpath after dark. They are calling on occupied boats to warn boaters, and also stopping and searching people on the towpath.
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Tags: burglary, continuous cruising, liveaboards, police, Sally Ash
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Monday, March 11th, 2013
There has been a spate of boats being broken into from Kintbury heading west, including Bedwyn, Brimslade, Wootton Rivers and on Friday evening (8th March) Bishops Cannings.
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Tags: burglary, liveaboards, police
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