Update on stolen boat
We have been informed that the police are treating the theft of the Dudley Castle as a civil matter. This means that is has not been logged as a crime and the police are treating it as a dispute over...
View ArticleProgress on hire boat stag parties
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...
View ArticleBoaters meet with hire companies over ASB stag parties
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...
View ArticleSpate of boat burglaries on K&A
In the week to 22nd April 2016 at least five boats on the K&A, at Pewsey and Hilperton, have been broken into. The modus operandi of the thief is very similar to that of Allan Campbell who was...
View ArticleBaNES Council trial of 14 day moorings at Mead Lane in support of liveaboards
BaNES Council presented its mooring trial and parking review for Mead Lane on the River Avon at the Saltford Parish Council meeting on 1st November. Signs were put up on 8th November and the ‘no...
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 ArticleWiltshire Police seek liveaboard boaters to join new Independent Advisory...
Wiltshire Police has approached the liveaboard boating community seeking people to participate in its new Independent Advisory Group (IAG) in East Wiltshire. The police are particularly looking for...
View Article101 Non-Emergency Police Calls Free as of 1st April
The Home Office announced recently that the charge for calling the police non-emergency number 101 would be scrapped from 1st April 2020. You should now be able to call 101 free of charge. However,...
View ArticleBaNES Council re-opens Mead Lane moorings
Last week BaNES Council reversed the decision that it made in January and has re-opened the 14-day moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford on the River Avon, until a structural survey of the river bank is...
View ArticleBoaters can now moor for 14 days at Mead Lane all year
Following a legal challenge by a boater to the decision by BaNES Council to close the moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, on the River Avon between November and March, boaters can now moor at Mead Lane...
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