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Post by kris on Apr 25, 2023 8:00:29 GMT
I should charge you royalties, these photos are my copyright.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 25, 2023 8:03:41 GMT
Perhaps I should be paying royalties to the boat's legal and rightful owner, but then I figure I give CRT enough already.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2023 8:11:12 GMT
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Post by on Apr 25, 2023 8:37:44 GMT
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 25, 2023 10:59:16 GMT
Interesting point in the comments section of the article...
"peter piper 23rd April 9:42 am User ID: 4382339 About time this is dealt with, its a disgrace how he has turned the canal path into a festering junkyard and emptying his toilet into the undergrowth, its a health hazard. Tony Dunkley is far from a canal expert, having had two of his own boats plus one he was helping the owner in court with towed away by The Trust due to his incorrect interpretation of the law. Being a bankrupt and a local conman around the Trent, he is hardly in a position to offer advice".
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 25, 2023 11:18:21 GMT
A disabled boater at the centre of a nine-hour canalside standoff last week has been given a new deadline to leave Wiltshire's waterways. The Canal & River Trust sent in around 20 employees and contract security staff in a failed mission to remove George Ward's two unlicensed boats and evict him from its network on April 19 - even drafting in armed police at one stage. Now a new notice demands Mr Ward leaves the 2,000-mile network of canals and inland waterways the Trust owns or manages by Tuesday, May 2. www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/23473777.boater-nine-hour-standoff-given-new-canal-river-trust-deadline/
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Post by Murgatroyd on Apr 25, 2023 12:12:08 GMT
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Post by on Apr 25, 2023 12:20:38 GMT
Gutless invertebrate.
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Post by Murgatroyd on Apr 25, 2023 12:23:22 GMT
Anybody in particular in mind?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 25, 2023 12:27:40 GMT
It will be interesting to see how this develops. In a letter to Mr Ward, CRT say ""Sightings of your boat March Hare show that it is still on our waters. We therefore now require you to remove your boat from our waters no later than May 2, 2023, failing which we will remove it using our powers under Section 8 of the British Watewrways Act 1983 and/or Section 13 of the British Waterways Act 1971 without further notice to you and you willl be liable for the cost incurred. The removal will take place not less than seven days and not more than 27 days after the date of this letter."
However there seems to me to be little point in simply repeating last week's scenario so presumably CRT are liaising with Wiltshire Police and they intend adopting a different approach.
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Post by on Apr 25, 2023 12:32:53 GMT
I'd say towpath closure and drag him out.
My sister, who is actually alright and not a nuisance or a danger, has been physically detained under section 2 several times. Surely the police can do similar in this sort of case.
Will it be a Waco type siege.
He seems a clever bloke I suspect he'll be gone like a long dog before it gets ugly.
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Post by Murgatroyd on Apr 25, 2023 12:38:32 GMT
Will you be using this latest addition to your idiom on a regular basis or is it a passing whim?
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Post by kris on Apr 25, 2023 13:14:12 GMT
Interesting point in the comments section of the article... "peter piper 23rd April 9:42 am User ID: 4382339 About time this is dealt with, its a disgrace how he has turned the canal path into a festering junkyard and emptying his toilet into the undergrowth, its a health hazard. Tony Dunkley is far from a canal expert, having had two of his own boats plus one he was helping the owner in court with towed away by The Trust due to his incorrect interpretation of the law. Being a bankrupt and a local conman around the Trent, he is hardly in a position to offer advice". You got a new Id?
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Post by on Apr 25, 2023 13:21:18 GMT
Anybody in particular in mind? The DCI.
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Post by on Apr 25, 2023 13:22:28 GMT
Interesting point in the comments section of the article... "peter piper 23rd April 9:42 am User ID: 4382339 About time this is dealt with, its a disgrace how he has turned the canal path into a festering junkyard and emptying his toilet into the undergrowth, its a health hazard. Tony Dunkley is far from a canal expert, having had two of his own boats plus one he was helping the owner in court with towed away by The Trust due to his incorrect interpretation of the law. Being a bankrupt and a local conman around the Trent, he is hardly in a position to offer advice". You got an new Id?
It should have been Peter Nicholls.
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