Posts Tagged ‘hire boats’
Monday, April 18th, 2016
Last year over 150 people, mostly liveaboard boaters, signed a letter to Avon and Somerset and Wiltshire police forces about the concerns of liveaboard boaters, leisure boaters and residents along the western end of the K&A about the activities and behaviour of some hire boat groups, especially stag and hen parties.
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Tags: anti-social behaviour, CRT, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards, meeting, police, stag parties
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Monday, October 19th, 2015
The BaNES Gypsy, Traveller, Boater and Roma Community Support Service report that over the summer they met with Chief Inspector Thatcher of Avon and Somerset Police on the issue of anti-social hire boaters. Avon and Somerset Police and Wiltshire Police have produced a joint leaflet which has been delivered by them to the hire boat companies along the western K&A, along with a message that the police will take action against drunk and anti-social behaviour from hirers and will be keeping a log of the number of reported incidents, which could result in action being taken against companies that persistently hire to this type of customer.
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Tags: hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards, police, Public Order Act, stag parties
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Following discussions with liveaboard boaters, Tim Harris, the Antisocial Behaviour Officer for BaNES has asked for video evidence of stag party hire boat crews causing damage to boats or behaving offensively or abusively.
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Tags: antisocial behaviour, BaNES, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards, police, stag parties
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Liveaboard boaters, especially those between Devizes and Bath, are breathing a sigh of relief now this year’s hire boat season is over. The K&A boaters action group is drawing up a dossier of the incidents involving hire boats and complaints that boaters and canalside residents have made about the behaviour or safety of hire boat crew this year. The group will then seek a meeting with the hire companies.
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Tags: canalside residents, complaints, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards
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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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Friday, December 4th, 2009
We thought it would be useful to have the whole of this sorry tale, told in installments on this site in one place.
if you want to know what causes congestion along the Kennet and Avon, read on, if you want to know how dismissively the chief executive treats genuine concerns from a large portion of his customers, read on….
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Tags: Bradford Wharf, British Waterways, hire boat companies, hire boats, mooring policy, Robin Evans
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