HAVING been thwarted by awful weather this week, I have had a few minutes to catch up on the activities amongst those southern stalwarts doing the ‘dirty' business on the southern canal restoration projects. What a heart-warming story it is too! Writes Orph Mable.
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Someone calling themselves John Wilkinson has every right to ask for information under the cover of the Freedom of Information Act or as a simple question to a manager.
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THE Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and Canal & River Trust (CART) have finally tied the knot—with a Memorandum of Understanding, signed at CART's first public meeting yesterday (Thursday).
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In response to what I consider to be a perfectly legitimate request made to a manager of CART, someone calling themselves 'Maffi' writes about a Freedom of Information request costing public money.
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THOUGH there are plans for a 600 berths marina at Onley, just above Braunston on the Oxford Canal, another is planned for Hawkesbury Junction.
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I WRITE to echo the sentiments in the post 'Rubbish—Do It Yourself!' As a whole the rubbish count around the canal system is worse now than I can remember at any time in the last 30 years, writes David Lyneham-Brown.
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I AM sorry but neither British Waterways nor Canal & River Trust are required by law to give the information being asked for by John Wilkinson. (How much does enforcement cost? Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:3), writes Maffi.
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BOATERS are advised to take great care when working the Wolverhampton 21 on the Birmingham Main Line, as there have been nine attacks on people on the towpath in just over a week, Orph Mable tells us.
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BOATERS moored in central London are having their boats targeted and damaged by yobs after Canal & River Trust locked open the entry to the moorings.
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THE boatyard, Worsley Dry Docks Ltd, on the Bridgewater Canal had been fined £50,000 over the death of a boater who fell from the boarding plank of his boat whilst in dry dock, Alan Tilbury reveals.
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