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		<title>BW say policy changes won&#8217;t be up for discussion in Local Mooring Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first meeting of the Local Mooring Strategy steering group for the western Kennet and Avon took place on 26 August in County Hall, Trowbridge. As you will see from the documents below which BW circulated before the meeting, most of the changes that BW want to make, that will have a big impact on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apply NOW to be a board member on the Kennet and Avon Canal Partnership!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust and British Waterways are asking local people and organisations to nominate interested individuals to become volunteer board members on the new Waterway Partnership Board.  The deadline is very soon. It&#8217;s really important that as many boaters as possible volunteer to be on the board of the partnership so that we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Mooring Strategy Inquiry Panel to hold first meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Panda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A boater has been asked to represent unaffiliated boaters (ie those not represented by NABO or RBOA) on the Local Mooring Strategy Inquiry Panel. In February BW agreed to include them on the panel, then later went back on its commitment, but following pressure from NABO and RBOA as well as from other boaters, BW has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BANES Council to employ boat checker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From correspondence below, obtained via Freedom of Information from Bath and NE Somerset Council, it looks like BW and BANES are paying jointly for an extra boat checker. This appears to be instigated partly by Councillor Ian Dewey of Bathampton, who has been a key mover in efforts to move liveaboard boaters off the canal.
 
The &#8220;concerns&#8221; expressed take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Stephens&#8217; emails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Panda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following our incomplete story, BW and the K and A Trust: After the apology, the answers! (July 2010 posts), we have received the emails between Mark Stephens, K&#38;A Manager, and the Trust, requested using Freedom of Information. These emails include the draft minutes of the User Group meeting on 29 April. They also show Mark talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pete&#8217;s Adventure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not &#8216;Five Go Mad In Dorset&#8217;, but we have received the following communication&#8230;
It&#8217;s official: Bath Narrow Boats in collusion with BWB!
BWB seized Indian Pete&#8217;s lovely boat Ayuppa. He was taking it to the river to be removed on the river slipway as BWB had requested. He left it overnight before the Deep Lock. Next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hit and Run</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=943</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the severe dent put in Whimbrel by the drunken crew of the boat Warneford, owned by RNAS Yeovilton but managed by a hire boat company, on a weekend that featured many late night booze cruises by overloaded boats of drunk and frequently abusive young men we thought we would help.
So if you experience any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Payments from Local Councils to BW amount to £550,000</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=937</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Panda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one of the meetings between boaters, BW and Wiltshire Council Ken Oliver, Wiltshire Council&#8217;s Canal Officer, made a comment about the amount of money that Councils pay each year to BW. Wanting to know the amounts and what this money was for I made FOI requests to BW, Wiltshire Council, B&#38;NES and West Berkshire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bradford on Avon Area Board to discuss mooring strategy</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=935</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Panda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The local mooring strategy will be discussed at the Wiltshire Council Bradford on Avon Area Board on 21st July at Westwood Social Club, Leslie Rise, Lower Westwood. Please attend if you can. The venue is open from 6.30pm and the meeting starts at 7pm. The minutes and other information from the Bradford on Avon Area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennet and Avon Canal Trust AGM decisions made by only 50 members</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=927</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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A boater recently obtained the last 3 years AGM minutes from the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, which is going to be working with BW in the management of the canal in a pilot project to try out BW&#8217;s proposed new charitable status. An average of only about 50 people voted and attended so if [...]]]></description>
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