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A simple question

WITH regard to the CaRT/IWA partnership asking for donations for the breach on the Trent and Mersey Canal, can we ask a simple question? Writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 01 October 2012

Breach waiting to happen

AT THE beginning of this month I cruised along the northern section of the Trent & Mersey Canal, and somewhere in the region of Croxton Flash I passed a place where the canal was trickling across the towpath, writes David Hymers.

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Published: 01 October 2012

Onwards—ever onwards!

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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Published: 30 September 2012

Email: Every right

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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Published: 29 September 2012

Tied the knot

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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Published: 28 September 2012

Email: Just wants the information

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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Published: 28 September 2012

Still more marinas

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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Published: 27 September 2012

More rubbish than last 30 years

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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Published: 27 September 2012

Misusing Freedom of Information Act

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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Published: 27 September 2012

Nine attacks on one towpath

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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Published: 26 September 2012

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