Archive for April, 2014
Monday, April 21st, 2014
The next Kennet and Avon Canal User Group Meeting will take place this Wednesday 23rd April 2014 at the Corn Exchange, Market Place, Devizes SN10 1HS (beside the Bear Hotel). Doors are open at 6.30 pm and the meeting will take place at 7 pm to 8.30 pm with light refreshments provided.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, liveaboards, meeting
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
Two boatloads of drunk stag partygoers had their holiday terminated early by Oxfordshire Narrowboats last weekend. The boats were taken back on Saturday following numerous complaints about their behaviour.
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Tags: complaints, crime, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards, Oxfordshire Narrowboats, police, Public Order Act, safety, stag parties, Susie Mercer
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Monday, April 7th, 2014
There have been some developments in CRT’s enforcement practice along the K&A, according to conversations between boaters and CRT staff.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Corrine Rotherham, Denise Yelland, enforcement, enforcement team, Section 17, Sheila Shaw, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
Liveaboard boaters have the right to vote even though we may not have a fixed address. There will be European Parliament elections on May 22nd this year. If you fill in and send back the electoral registration form before the deadline of May 6th 2014, you will be added to the electoral roll in time to vote. You can download the registration form here.
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Tags: elections, electoral registration, electoral roll, European elections, liveaboards, voting
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
We have just heard that Sally Ash, CRT’s Head of Boating, dubbed the ‘Wicked Witch of Watford’ and ‘Cruella De Vil’ by boaters for her efforts over many years to destroy the lives of liveaboard continuous cruisers, is to retire at the end of June this year.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Drifters Leisure Limited, libel threat, liveaboards, Richard Parry, Sally Ash
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