BOATERS, together with an alliance of boating associations have used their clout to stop the Broads Authority creating the new post of Marketing and Promotion Officer.
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SOLDIERS and Civilians—covering over 1,000 years of Cheshire history will be bringing the National Waterways Museum to life at the Warriors and Washerwomen Living History Fair.
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THERE is to be another Blisworth Canal Festival this year on the Grand Union Canal.
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LOCAL residents near a moorings on the Kennet & Avon Canal were so fed up with noise from the boaters that they contacted the local council, with a unique solution being found.
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THE recent problems highlighted in narrowboatworld concerning the plight of the disabled access gates on the towpaths (Little care for the disabled) shows that Canal & River Trust has little concern for the disabled, but it goes much further in CaRT actually allowing the banning of the disabled from its waters, as Mick Fitzgibbons writes:
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THE IWA Waterway Recovery Group carried out restoration work on the iconic Grade II listed Lady Capel's Bridge that spans the Grand Union Canal in Watford in the run up to and during the Waterways Festival.
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LAST Tuesday (9th July), I was working alongside the canal in Digbeth, Birmingham and noticed, along with others, that the level had dropped by at least five inches in under three hours. writes Ken Griffiths.
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NOT wanting to be a miserable cynic, but in response to Susan McLeod (Championing nature and art) I would just point out that there's a difference between CaRT 'investing in art', and a bunch of people on a quango trying to avoid under-spending on their budgets and only doing things when 'funding is available', writes David Davis.
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IT IS perhaps, little wonder that Canal & River Trust (CaRT) did not release its first Annual Report several weeks before its AGM, writes Allan Richards.
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THERE are many disabled boaters who encounter problems on the towpaths, with one, the well known Geraldine Prescott of the Cheese Boat writing:
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