Archive for July, 2016
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters and their supporters are invited to join a protest at Caen Hill, opposite CRT’s office in Devizes at 2.00pm on Saturday 6th August 2016 to express our opposition to CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy against boaters without home moorings. This policy has seen so many liveaboard boaters on the K&A having their licences restricted to 6 months, threatened with losing their homes, being pressured to give up their homes, and boat children’s education and welfare suffering due to the long distances they are being forced to travel to school.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
There will be a showing of Off the Cut, the film by Wendy Zakiewicz, at the Bell in Walcot St, Bath this Saturday 16th July 2016, followed by some great sounds.
Tags: arts and culture, community, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Off the Cut, The Bell Inn, Wendy Zakiewicz
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
Following recent media coverage of CRT’s punitive policy towards boat dwellers without home moorings, especially the features about families on the K&A who are being threatened with the loss of their home because their children go to school, a boater has contacted us with these comments. Steve Haigh writes:
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Off the Cut
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
Only joking, but the wonderful Mikron Theatre are again coming to the K&A, Wiltshire, Bath and Bristol on their historic narrowboat Tyseley between 10th and 30th July 2016.
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Tags: arts and culture, Mikron Theatre
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
A primary school head condemned CRT’s enforcement policy against boats without home moorings as “inhumane” because of its detrimental effect on boat children, in a meeting between CRT chief Richard Parry and local MP Michelle Donelan.
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Tags: Bathampton School, Bradford-on-Avon, children, community, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
Bradford on Avon Fringe is showing ‘Off the Cut’, the film by Wendy Zakiewicz, followed by the K&A’s best known liveaboard boatie band Calico Jack at the Three Horseshoes, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon on Wednesday 6th July at 8pm. This boatie double bill promises to be a great night.
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Tags: arts and culture, Bradford on Avon Fringe, Bradford-on-Avon, Calico Jack, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Off the Cut, Wendy Zakiewicz
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