Towpath tidy, Wilcot, 4th September
There will be a towpath tidy at Wilcot on Sunday 4th September 2016 at 11am to 2pm. It is organised by liveaboard boaters but all canal users and local residents are welcome to take part. Please meet...
View ArticleNBTA to hold volunteer caseworker training and first meeting of NBTA Kennet...
The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is to hold a Volunteer Caseworker Training Session for liveaboard boaters and their supporters at 11am to 5pm on Sunday 11th September 2016 followed by...
View ArticleBoats are Homes Protest, Devizes Wharf 4-8pm 15th September
On Thursday 15th September at 5pm, CRT Chief Richard Parry will launch a CRT publicity boat at Devizes Wharf SN10 1EB as part of the K&A Waterways Partnership AGM. Liveaboard boaters will be there...
View ArticleBoater Eviction in Bath
On 14th September CRT seized a boat without a home mooring that was a vulnerable woman’s home while she was asleep inside it. The woman, who suffers from epilepsy, was later rushed to hospital in an...
View ArticleUnpopular G&S enforcement officer sacked
We have been informed that CRT enforcement officer Steve England was sacked in early September. We have no further details except that it was “something to do with a narrowboat called Shiraz”. Mr...
View ArticleSupport from BaNES Council: more liveaboard boaters needed to help build on a...
Boater Sam Worrall, who works for Julian House Travelling Communities Support Service, spoke at the BaNES council meeting on 15th September 2016 to explain the adverse effects of CRT’s unlawful...
View ArticleBoat Fire Safety talk, Avoncliff, 21st November and more to come
There will be a Boat Fire Safety talk at the Cross Guns in Avoncliff, on Monday 21st November 2016 at 7.30pm. The Fire Service will be giving out free smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors and...
View ArticleThe K&A is being dredged
The K&A is actually being dredged. Well, not completely dredged, but spot dredged in some of the worst places. This long awaited work started on 17th October on the stretch between Bridge 97 at...
View ArticleCRT makes changes to K&A visitor moorings without consultation
CRT’s Short Term Moorings Framework for Change published in March 2015 states that CRT will always consult users before making changes to visitor moorings, and also that any changes should be based on...
View ArticleMore facilities and skips planned for K&A while CRT seeks review of Biffa...
More facilities for boaters are planned on the K&A. In a meeting between K&A Manager Mark Evans and representatives of liveaboard boaters in which refuse and sewage disposal facilities, water...
View ArticleCRT Head of Boating quits after only 22 months
Mike Grimes, Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) Head of Boating, has today announced his resignation from the post after only 22 months. Mike Grimes headed the boating team from August 2015. He joined CRT...
View ArticleBaNES boaters’ survey results published in full
BaNES Council Water Space Study has published the full results of its 2016 survey into the needs of liveaboard boaters in its area. You can read the full report here...
View ArticleAldermaston sanitary station to re-open on 1st March
The sanitary station below Aldermaston lock is to re-open on 1st March 2017 according to CRT. The facilities and toilet block was closed in July 2015 as a cost saving measure by West Berkshire Council...
View ArticleCalico Jack to play at Cross Guns re-opening, 1st March
Boatie band Calico Jack will play at the re-opening of the Cross Guns in Avoncliff, a favourite boaters’ pub, from 4pm to 8pm on Wednesday 1st March. Calico Jack are based on the K&A; their...
View ArticleNational Boats Are Homes demonstration, 8th April
There will be a national Boats Are Homes demonstration in London on Saturday 8th April 2017. Transport will be available from the K&A – contact info@boatingcommunity.org.uk or 07928 078208. The...
View ArticleK&A boater wins Article 8 case against CRT in Court of Appeal in landmark...
K&A boater Matthew Jones yesterday won his appeal against CRT’s attempt to strike out the Article 8 elements of his defence against eviction from CRT’s waterways under Section 8 of the British...
View ArticleWhere’s Corrine?
Corrine Rotherham, Enforcement Officer for the K&A between Hanham and Widbrook, does not appear to have been seen since the autumn. A recent call to the CRT Devizes office produced a very cagey...
View ArticleWiltshire Police bring project Kraken to the K&A
Project Kraken is the UK-wide Police operation that targets boat-related crime. It operates on all the UK’s inland waterways and on the coast. In London, Project Kraken dealt with the epidemic of boat...
View ArticleK&A boaters join national Boats Are Homes march
A group of fourteen boaters from the K&A joined the national Boats Are Homes march on Saturday 8th April 2017. The demonstration was organised in protest against CRT’s unlawful enforcement policy...
View ArticleIf you want to vote in the 2017 General Election, register by 22nd May
If you want to vote in the General Election on 8th June 2017, you need to register by 22nd May. Anybody who does not have a fixed address can register to vote by declaring a local connection. You can’t...
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