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Memories are made of this

THERE just has to be one, and I followed it! Writes Pam Pickett.
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Published: 28 June 2012

Thames cable car opens

THE new cable car service across the Thames in East London opens today (Thursday) carrying people in its pods.

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Published: 28 June 2012

CART trading subsidary

IN A Parliamentary statement reported in Hansard in June, Canal and River Trading CIC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canal & River Trust, which apparently has to be set up according to Charity Law,  writes Martin Howes.

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Published: 28 June 2012

Email: 'Locked horns'

I have 'locked horns' with Sir Adrian Stott in the past over leaving lock gates open, for he has been promoting this for many years in one media or another.

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Published: 28 June 2012

Don't leave them open

I must say I was amazed at you including that about leaving lock gates open from Adrian Stott, as he has had this bee in his bonnet for years back in Waterways World, writes Jimmy Lockwood.

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Published: 28 June 2012

100th birthday journey

A RESTORED narrowboat is making a 100th birthday journey across the canal network from the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port to the London Canal Museum—and taking all summer to do it.

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Published: 27 June 2012

Whose is the sunken boat?

A FAIRLY new Sea Otter, Nook is sunk on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, with no one in the area knowing who owns it, David King writes.

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Published: 27 June 2012

Rewards for failure

THE May Canal & River Trust (CART) update omits to tell that British Waterways directors are being rewarded for failure by becoming directors of a community interest company (CIC) set up as CART's trading subsidiary, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 27 June 2012

Making use of the Montgomery

THE Montgomery Canal Forum, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the waterway, held at  Welshpool Town Hall showed that many businesses are making use of the waterway.

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Published: 25 June 2012

Car rescued from canal

IT TOOK British Waterways staff over three hours to rescue a car from the Rochdale Canal at Walsden on the East of the summit pound late last week.

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Published: 25 June 2012

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Latest

  • Hope to have lock repaired in two days
  • Advance tickets available for Crick Boat Show
  • Two more winter works cancelled
  • Still no access on or off the tidal Trent at Keadby
  • Repair needed now for deteriorated lock
  • Cannot find the source of diesel spill
  • Reviewing the Review
  • Bogus trust man gaining entry to boats
  • The trust is taking on the commission's recommendations
  • Birmingham summer gathering of boats
  • Lack of oxygen kills Kennet & Avon Canal fish
  • Staffs & Worcs closed until May
  • Open Day to review Chesterfield Canal Lock repair
  • Flood warning on the Trent
  • Water, water, everywhere
  • Still no paddles for lock on Glasson Branch
  • More problems at Penkridge Lock
  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled

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