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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

Boaters rescued from Northern waterways

WITH an estimated month's worth of rain in 24 hours around Calderdale, the Rochdale Canal, Calder & Hebble and Aire & Calder are all flooded with boaters having to be rescued.

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Published: 25 June 2012

Email: Closing gates

May I respond to Victor on the subject of lock gate closing? Does it make any sense to shut a gate on a busy day on the lower Grand Union?

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Published: 25 June 2012

Email: Swinging gates

If I remember correctly, when we passed through Aston Lock a couple of weeks ago, after we closed the bottom gates (going down) and before we had progressed very far, one was already open by itself.

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Published: 25 June 2012

Not slowing down

ANOTHER boater having problems with boats speeding past when his own boat is moored, is Richard Tanner, who writes:

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Published: 25 June 2012

The cost of death

FOLLOWING narrowboatworld's shock revelation that British Waterways directors may face criminal charges relating to the death of a young cyclist Allan Richards explores the cost of death or serious injury on our waterways.

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Published: 25 June 2012

Victor: What's missing?

BRITISH Waterways had little option but to respond to our disclosing the dangers of the low metal beams erected on the bridges of the locks on the Staffs & Worcs, particularly Falling Sands Lock.

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Published: 24 June 2012

Broads Authority can do it

AN EXTENSIVE survey by the Broads Authority has shown that it is doing a good job of managing its waterways, in fact getting better year on year.

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Published: 23 June 2012

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