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Despite their low-cost, bohemian image, houseboats can cost a pretty penny and often rival the price of a property on land. Now, those living on rivers and canals in London fear they will be priced out of for good as soaring mooring fees threaten their way of life.The Canal and River Trust CRT has raised mooring fees at some sites it owns by 10% for two years in a row. The Conservative government previously announced a 拢300m cut in funding to the trust, due from 2027. For many permanently moored in centrally located marinas, fees have shot up by thousands of pounds.In Ice Wharf Marina, situated along Regents Canal in London near Kings Cross station, the annual mooring fees have risen by more than 50 stanley cups uk % in the past nine years. In 2015, residents could expect to pay about 拢8,850 for the year with a 10% early payment discount. Now the discount has been cut to 2% and residents face an annual bill of about 拢15,000.Alexandra Lyons, a university researcher, lives on a houseboat in the marina with her 15-year-old daughter. She bought her boat for 拢180,000 but says that due to the soaring mooring rates she would be lucky to get 拢100,000 for it.She previously owned a leasehold flat in Stamford Hill, north London, but sold it at a 30% loss after the buildings owner converted flats in the block into accommodation stanley cups for prison leavers. It descended into chaos and became really unsafe. They were threatening to kill my neighbour who was pregnant. It was a really difficul stanley us t situation, she sai Gpvy Christmas spike in domestic violence keeps courts busy on New Year s Eve
More than 150 exiled Chagos islanders and their relatives gathered in London on Thursday to press for a return to the Indian Ocean archipelago from which they were exiled 40 years ago, and to discuss the area s environmental future.The Chagos Regagn茅 Chagos Regained stanley quencher conference came just over a year after the Chagossians struggle to go home was further complicated by the British government s decision to declare stanley cup most stanley us of the Chagos islands a marine protected area MPA with a total fishing ban.The UK, however, insists the move was made without prejudice to the islanders legal plight. The only exception to the MPA is the island of Diego Garcia, home to the US military base whose creation precipitated the mass eviction.The meeting at the Royal Geographical Society in London, which was organised by the writer Philippa Gregory, broadcaster and environmentalist Ben Fogle, and Roch Evenor, chair of the UK Chagos Support Organsation, heard from Chagossians, scientists, environmentalists, academics, historians and lawyers.The central question was how to balance the archipelago s environmental importance with its original inhabitants right to go home. The conference heard that the world s coral reefs were in a parlous state and that declaring the Chagos islands an MPA would prove invaluable to global conservation efforts.Dr John Turner, a senior lecturer in ocean sciences at Bangor University, said a delicate balance would have to be struck. I do feel th |
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