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Email: The other breaches

Not wanting to be depressing—but it's not only the CaRT's Trent & Mersey, Huddersfield Narrow canals and Aylesbury Arm that are closed due to breaches and lock collapse at the moment. (Oh no it isn't.)

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Published: 24 April 2013

Email: Emergency telephone number

Mr Moran provides several paragraphs of detail on the various call routings, staffing arrangements and work-flows associated with the [emergency telephone] number, and berates members of the public for not having been aware of them.

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Published: 19 April 2013

Email: Tighten up inspection procedures

Although we need to keep from being too panicky about boat safety and lock walls as I have just read on the site—I do think that Canal & River Trust should indeed be worried.

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Published: 17 April 2013

Email: Speeding cyclists

Ross Lydall's story (Evening Standard, 15 April—page 26), about an architect's nutty proposal for an elevated bike path along part of the Regent's Canal, surely should have been published on April Fool's Day.

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Published: 17 April 2013

Email: Polite and friendly

I accept that some experiences of hire boats leave others less than impressed but we are currently on the southern Oxford, just below Banbury.

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Published: 15 April 2013

Email: Good hiring service

Last Summer we hired from Oxford Narrowboats, Lower Heyford for a week. We made the trip up to Cropredy and back.

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Published: 15 April 2013

David: Vegetation cutting

CaRT seems to have spent some time during the winter in much needed vegetation cutting on the Grand Union, both towpath and offside—not before time. I can only hope that this has been the case all over the system.

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Published: 10 April 2013

Email: Llangollen closure

Bit late for an April Fool! Can't believe that this can happen in the middle of summer on the busiest waterway in the country?

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Published: 08 April 2013

Email: Should resign

Having read the email exchange, I suggest that if Mr Welch considers this to be a police matter, he reports it forthwith. I would be interested to see the reply.

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Published: 06 April 2013

Email: Emergency number

Your story the Canal & River Trust 'emergency' number makes shocking reading.

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Published: 04 April 2013

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